9VX
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Achrissi
#9vx is essentially a port of the Plan 9 kernel to the [vx32 |
#http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/vm/] user-mode virtualization
#environment. A special kernel device (#Z) provides access to the
#local file system, similar to Inferno's #U.
#
#9vx was originally written by [rsc | Russ Cox]. A version of it is
#included in the vx32 distribution. Users can run that version
#against a full Plan 9 tree to get a very good emulation of Plan 9.
#
#Note that since the entire system runs as the invoking user, some
#things aren't quite right. For example, all file access is done as
#the invoking user, not the Plan 9 user. Networking is also provided
#by a stripped-down IP stack that passes through to the host OS's IP
#stack, but only tcp and udp.
#
#There are extensions to 9vx to provide it a raw ethernet device
#(which it may then run a real Plan 9 IP stack above) and allow
#direct access to raw disk devices, which allow it to use a real
#fossil (and optionally venti) partition, instead of #Z. Search
#9fans; Brian Stuart did the later; dho and/or quanstro did the
#networking. When you find good links, come back and put them here!
#
#For more information, see [Russ's original 9vx page |
#http://swtch.com/9vx/].
#
#PATCHES
#
#Several users have modified and extended 9vx to their needs. See the
#patches for their details.
#
# *	[yiyus's 9vx | https://bitbucket.org/yiyus/vx32]
# *	[rminnich's 9vx | https://bitbucket.org/rminnich/vx32]
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