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Plan 9 can be installed on a variety of virtual machines. For the moment, this page collects links to the various pages related to the subject. 9VX * [9vx] provides a Plan 9 kernel running in user-mode. XEN * [Installing in Xen] * [Installing in Xen 3.0] QEMU/KVM For installation instructions, see * [Installing Plan 9 on Qemu] * [Installing Plan B on Qemu] If you configure a cpu server ([Configuring a standalone CPU server]), you can run it from a terminal by adding a line ! console=0 to plan9.ini and invoking the virtual machine with option -nographic. Note that you need to configure Qemu networking to allow connections to the virtual machine. PARALLELS See [Installing in Parallels Desktop on Mac OS X] for installation instructions. There are also some possibly outdated instructions at [Plan 9 on Parallels | http://www.tip9ug.jp/who/leimy/parallels.html]. Note that <Del> is <fn>+<Bksp>. VMWARE * [VMWare] * [vmware4] * [Vmware_playground_for_plan9] * [Dual booting bare machine and vmware] VIRTUAL BOX * [installing plan 9 in a virtualbox] Note, in particular, the warning about VirtualBox being often broken, with behavior very dependent on exact versions of things. If at all possible, you are advised to use a different VM. VIRTUAL BOX on OS X I used VirtualBox 4.1.6 (with a matching extension pack). This is the latest version at present(2011/11/24). Installed a stock plan9.iso (made on 2011/11/12). Settings: * Chipset: PIIX3 * Enable IO APIC * select both buttons on h/w virtualization * IDE ctrlr: PIIX4, use host I/O cache * hard disk on IDE primary master * cdrom on IDE secondary master * network: bridge adapter * Adapter type: intel pro/1000 MT server or desktop * Enable USB, select USB 2.0 Other settings may also work. During installation choose Fossil only (I had lot of trouble with fossil + venti, where it dies very early during distcopy). Everything else was basically defaulted. Even with just fossil I see fossil write errors once in a while but fossil/flchk doesn't show any errors. Don't forget to turn on venti on reboot (Yon can use p9p venti -- unless you have a physical machine running plan9, running venti natively on the host is faster). For venti add the following to plan9.ini ! venti=tcp!<venti-server-ip-addr>!17034 Use the numeric ip-address for your venti-server. and telling fossil to use venti & set up a regular snapshots ! fossil/conf /dev/sdC0/fossil > fs.cfg ! ed fs.cfg <<EOF ! /open/s/-V/-AWP/p ! a ! fsys main snaptime -a hhmm -s 1440 ! . ! EOF ! fossil/conf -w /dev/sdC0/fossil fs.cfg Replace hhmm with the time you want to take a snapshot.
