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diff --git a/content/plan9/plan9_on_9vx.rst b/content/plan9/plan9_on_9vx.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..841c53a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/plan9/plan9_on_9vx.rst @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +Running Plan9 using 9vx - using vx32 sandboxing library +####################################################### + +:date: 2015-02-21 12:32 +:slug: plan9_on_9vx_linux +:tags: plan9, debian, 9vx +:author: copyninja +:summary: Running Plan9 using 9vx, a vx32 sandboxing library. + + +Now a days I'm more and more attracted towards Plan9, an Operating +System meant to be the successor of UNIX and created by same people +who created original UNIX. I'm always baffled by the simplicity of +Plan9. Sadly Plan9 never took off for whatever reasons. + +I've been for a while trying to run Plan9, I ran Plan9 on Raspberry Pi +model B using 9pi, but I couldn't experiment with it more due to some +restrictions in my home setup. + +I installed original Plan9 4th Edition from Bell labs (now part of +Alcatel-Lucent), I will write about it in on different post. But +running virtual machine on my system is again PITA as system is +already old (3 and half year). I came across the `9vx +<http://swtch.com/9vx/>`_ which is port of Plan9 for FreeBSD, Linux +and Mac OSX by Russ Cox. + +I downloaded original 9vx version 0.9.12 from Russ's page linked +above. The archive contains a Plan9 rootfs along with precompiled 9vx +binaries for Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. I ran the Linux binary but +it crashed. + +.. code-block:: sh + + ./9vx.Linux -u glenda + +I was seeing some illegal instruction error in dmesg. I didn't bother +to do more investigation. + +A bit of googling showed me Arch Linux's `wiki page on 9vx +<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/9vx>`_. I got errors trying to +compile the original vx32 from `rsc's repository +<https://bitbucket.org/rsc/vx32>`_ but later saw that AUR 9vx package +is built from different repository forked from rsc's found `here +<https://bitbucket.org/rminnich/vx32>`_. + +I cloned the repository to local and compiled it, I don't really +remember if I had installed any additional packages. But if you get +error you will know what additional thing is required. After +compilation the 9vx binary is found inside `src/9vx/9vx`. I used this +newly compiled 9vx to run the the rootfs I downloaded from Russ's +website. + +.. code-block:: sh + + 9vx -u glenda -r /path/to/extracted/9vx-0.9.12/ + + +This launches Plan9 and allows you to work inside Plan9. The good part +is its not resource hungry and still looks like you have a VM running +with Plan9 on it. + +But there seems to be a better way to do this directly from plan9 iso +from bell labs. It can be found on `9fans list +<http://9fans.net/archive/2010/10/14>`_. Now I'm going to try that out +too :-). And in next post I will share my experience of using Plan9 on +Qemu. |