have you considered running plan 9 from within virtualbox? plan 9 seems to be fairly responsive running within the latest version of virtualbox on debian squeeze here.
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Anton <fluffyl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > Recently I've discovered Plan 9 and I'm fascinated by it's numerous > beauties, and I want to try it for more or less regular use, probably port > something. > > However, as it won't work on my laptop natively, i'm forced to use 9vx > (running in kvm is too slow). It has one magor drawback - it is freezing my > entire system after some random time. > Symptoms are - no reaction on input (mouse/keyboard), no changes in output > (screen is showing me what was going on just before freeze). The only thing > I can do is to press power button for 10 secs and wait until my laptop > turned off. > I've tried to find the reasons of this behaviour, but all system logs are > silent - last kernel.log messages are prior to hang, the same with > messages.log and Xorg.log, console output from 9vx are empty, too. What > causes the hang is also seems unclear - it can froze on 9vx startup, or > when I use terminal, or installing something, or just browsing web (not in > 9vx) in chrome, while 9vx window is hidden. > My system: > Linux hippo 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 19 12:14:48 UTC 2011 i686 > Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux (Archlinux) > 9vx-hg (checked out 2011.11.17) - cmd line (9vx -r 9front -u glenda) > 9front iso image - 9front-1131.664b953bfdde (I've copied it's contents and > `chmod -R u+w`ed it) > xf86-video-intel 2.16.0 - VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation > Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) > xorg-server 1.11.2 > xorg-apps 7.6 > > Also, I've seen the following message for a few times: "9vx panic: sigsegv > on cpu7", but I don't know if it related to freeze (it can show up in the > middle of my boot-work-freeze session). > > Previously, I've used stock Plan 9 from Bell Labs with 9vx - it has the > same problem. > > P.S.: Sorry for my English. > > Anton. >
