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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:35:02 +0200
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late follow up. I'm running v 3 build 4560, with converted v 2 image.
seems to work fine, as far as I can judge --
apart from things I notice while typing this, see below (*)

did not (yet) try direct install of plan 9 in v 3.

resolution 1680x1050 is standard supported,
aux/vga -m vesa -p lists no depth 32 at all, only 8, 16 and 24.
this is on a quite recent 20" imac.

audio works per ac97 instructions in wiki
page 'Installing in parallels desktop on Mac OS X'


(*) minor problems:
I'm typing this from a vncv session to unix within the parallels
plan 9 on the mac. it works ok, but the mouse cursor does funny things.

screen shot http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~belinfan/parpic01.png

in the vnc-ed unix session I run rio as wm.
when I move the fat arrow in the vnc window,
while moving it a transparent square box
(or rather: hole, since it is tranparent)
of, dunno, 10x10 pixels appears in the mouse cursor,
moreover, pieces of the mouse cursor get left behind.
combined with the transparancy thing this means I can draw by
moving mouse moving south-east and can erase by moving mouse north-west.

also, probably unrelated to vncv, when I use lens outside the vncv window
I also see the image of the mouse cursor in the lens window. don't
recall seeing that in native plan 9.


turns out I have an 'international english' keyboard
where `/~ key is next to left shift key,
and a plus-minus/paragraph(?) key is at the usual `/~ position.
parallels seems not to know about this keyboard:
when I press the plus-minus/paragraph(?) key I get the `/~.


about the 'Installing in parallels desktop on Mac OS X' page:
I was surprised to see that
applying the suggested 'hget -o file URL' idiom to existing
/sys/src/9/port/devaudio.c overwrites the first part of it
by retreived file, but leaves the last part in place.
turns out 1) ac97 port/devaudio.c is shorter than the original
2) hget -o opens existing file without truncate, on purpose.
I guess in case of an existing (different) file, first get
original out of the way before using: hget -o file URL

Axel.