Virtual machines

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.

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 There are also some possibly outdated instructions at Plan 9 on Parallels.

Note that <Del> is <fn>+<Bksp>. You can use vncv to connect to the host OS X using fast user switching, see http://www.redstonesoftware.com/multidesktop.html.

VMWARE

• VMWare
• vmware4
• Vmware_playground_for_plan9
• Dual booting bare machine and vmware