Re: [9fans] parallels

2010-01-09 Thread Federico G. Benavento
no apple-pcs here, but vmware seems to be the faster On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > Yep. I just wanted a version with full acpi support, and it > seems that version 5 was what I wanted. > that's handy to debug acpi code. > > but yes, it requires a mac. > > > On S

Re: [9fans] parallels

2010-01-09 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
Yep. I just wanted a version with full acpi support, and it seems that version 5 was what I wanted. that's handy to debug acpi code. but yes, it requires a mac. On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Joseph Stewart wrote: > Just to clarify... Parallels 5 requires a Mac. There are howerver, older > ver

Re: [9fans] parallels

2010-01-09 Thread Joseph Stewart
Just to clarify... Parallels 5 requires a Mac. There are howerver, older versions for M$ and Linux as well as their Server Virtualization products. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallels,_Inc. -joe On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:14 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > Just to confirm what Geoff said. > > >

Re: [9fans] parallels

2010-01-09 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
Just to confirm what Geoff said. Parallels 5 works like a charm with Plan 9. Also, it seems to have full ACPI support, not that this is important for Plan 9 yet. Thanks On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:53 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> I've heard nothing but bad things about VirtualBox. Mostly from Plan

Re: [9fans] parallels

2010-01-09 Thread erik quanstrom
> Just to confirm what Geoff said. > > Parallels 5 works like a charm with Plan 9. > Also, it seems to have full ACPI support, not that this is > important for Plan 9 yet. > > Thanks > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:53 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > >> I've heard nothing but bad things about VirtualBo

Re: [9fans] parallels

2010-01-09 Thread erik quanstrom
> I've heard nothing but bad things about VirtualBox. Mostly from Plan 9 > people(where the results have been uniformly bad), but also from folks > trying to useother OSes. It seems the worst of the breed across the board. has anyone tried 9atom on virtualbox? i think there's a good chance vi

Re: [9fans] No USB hotswap, except when booting with USB plugged in

2010-01-09 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
I have an unrelated fix from erik that has not been integrated yet (my fault) but otherwise, sources USB is what we have so far. I couldnt reproduce your problem here and dont know exactly how to fix it. It problably has to do with bios hand off or initialization. could those with problems send m

Re: [9fans] parallels

2010-01-09 Thread Anthony Sorace
It happens that I bought Parallels 5 two or three days ago. Upon upgrading my Plan 9 VM from Parallels 3 (skipped a version), it stopped working. I've not had time to dig in, nor to try a fresh install. The Plan 9 version on there had not been kept up to date, so Geoff's info is likely more

Re: [9fans] No USB hotswap, except when booting with USB plugged in

2010-01-09 Thread lucio
> Sources has the latest USB source, no USB code is being held back. I took that as a given. It's missing a benchmark kernel that I find awkward. I can create a kernel, but it's too difficult to be sure that it uses the "release" sources, shared by all other potential testers. That is why I wou

Re: [9fans] No USB hotswap, except when booting with USB plugged in

2010-01-09 Thread geoff
Sources has the latest USB source, no USB code is being held back.