From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Russ Cox" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Once again: running Plan 9 under VMWare, Bochs, Plex86 etc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20011003152849.AF99F19A2F@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:28:47 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: fc263e22-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I have the ethernet and the vga working under VMware, but unfortunately VMware doesn't always provide a virtual hardware cursor. Since Plan 9 doesn't have software cursor code, we're sort of stuck in that case. Since this observation is based on a sample of size one, I don't really know if VMware ever provides a virtual hardware cursor. I haven't done VGA hardware acceleration yet either, which should help a lot with the perceived speed, but that looks easy. It is my current intention that the still-far-off next release will have full VMware support, which is to say that if nothing else happens first, the prospect of doing a new release will be enough of a kick for me to write the missing bits of code. When I did the VMware support, I changed aux/vga to recognize cards based on PCI device identifiers (in addition to the old BIOS-string method). This should help quite a bit with not having to edit vgadb for supported cards. If people who already have the system installed would like to play with running a CPU server under VMware, I will make the ethernet driver available. At least then you could drawterm into your virtual CPU server. Russ