Re:Minoca OS: A new open source operating system
by i336_ on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @06:30PM
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> You can use the Plan9 file system on Linux afaik. Still nobody cares.
Actually, start QEMU with some special arguments and a directory path, and the Linux guest inside will be able to see the given directory as a read-write 9P filesystem, mountable with a single command. (New files get QEMU's UID unless QEMU is run as root.)
> Mounting my sound card across the network sounds like a nice hack. It is more important that sound does not stutter though. That has soft real time requirements, which Plan9 does not address.
An incredibly good point, and why Plan 9 has zero adoption. :(
Mounting my sound card across the network sounds like a nice hack. It is more important that sound does not stutter though. That has soft real time requirements, which Plan9 does not address.