Re: [9fans] VMWare floppy bug

Re: [9fans] VMWare floppy bug

[Russ Cox]

> > Also related with VMWare, is there any way to make plan9 free the
> > cursor when it reaches the margin of the window? (like on windows or linux
> > do when you install thw VMWare tools).  To get the cursor trapped is
> > annoying.
>
>   Only if you can get VMware to write a "Plan9 Toolbox"  The utility
> that does that runs in the VM, not the host OS.  Bummer for us.

Not really.  I have the documentation I need.  Just have to write it.

Russ

Re: [9fans] VMWare floppy bug

[Doc Shipley]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 paurea@gsyc.escet.urjc.es wrote:

> The floppy on the vmware (running under linux, vmware version 3.1)
> gives random errors. I have noticed it while making boot floppys using
> cat ndisk>/dev/fd0. They usually (something like 3 times out of 4)
> give a CRC error while booting. I also get I/O errors "floppy changed
> during operation" from the linux kernel (they keep repeating while the
> vmware is on, but they seem to happen with other os's and I have never
> had any problem using the floppy with them, though that may be caused
> by not enough testing). Has anyone noticed this too?. Is it a vmware
> problem or plan9 problem?. Any idea of how to solve it?

  The I/O errors are a vmware thing.  I haven't tried making floppies in
the Plan9 VM, but in other clients its mostly harmless.  It *is* quite
annoying.

> Also related with VMWare, is there any way to make plan9 free the
> cursor when it reaches the margin of the window? (like on windows or linux
> do when you install thw VMWare tools).  To get the cursor trapped is
> annoying.

  Only if you can get VMware to write a "Plan9 Toolbox"  The utility
that does that runs in the VM, not the host OS.  Bummer for us.

	Doc

Re: [9fans] VMWare floppy bug

[Russ Cox]

> Also related with VMWare, is there any way to make plan9 free the
> cursor when it reaches the margin of the window? (like on windows or linux
> do when you install thw VMWare tools).  To get the cursor trapped is
> annoying.

Yes, but I have to write the code.  I signed an NDA with VMware
to get the appropriate bits (I can give out binaries, like aux/isvmware),
but I haven't written that code yet.  I really want that feature too.

Russ

[9fans] VMWare floppy bug

[paurea]

The floppy on the vmware (running under linux, vmware version 3.1)
gives random errors. I have noticed it while making boot floppys using
cat ndisk>/dev/fd0. They usually (something like 3 times out of 4)
give a CRC error while booting. I also get I/O errors "floppy changed
during operation" from the linux kernel (they keep repeating while the
vmware is on, but they seem to happen with other os's and I have never
had any problem using the floppy with them, though that may be caused
by not enough testing). Has anyone noticed this too?. Is it a vmware
problem or plan9 problem?. Any idea of how to solve it?

Also related with VMWare, is there any way to make plan9 free the
cursor when it reaches the margin of the window? (like on windows or linux
do when you install thw VMWare tools).  To get the cursor trapped is
annoying.
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