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+Running Plan9 using 9vx - using vx32 sandboxing library
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+
+: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.