What features are only availalbe on plan9 OS but not on plan9port?

[류인상]

Hi. Sorry for my English :-/

I'm newly interested in plan9 stuffs.
I want to know what would be the differences between plan9 on
virtual machine and plan9port. Can someone kindly explain it?

[erik quanstrom]

the differences are quite fundamental.

p9p tries to add some plan9 bits like acme to other systems. when
there is a conflict or there's an abstraction the host can't handle,
it is not supported. so namespaces don't work. if you're looking
for a slightly nicer $os or $os with acme, this works fine. if you
want a plan 9 experience, you will be disappointed.

it's going to be tautology, but plan 9 in a vm box is exactly the same
code running the same way as plan 9 on real hardware, except the
hardware is virtual.

- erik