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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] VMWare Fusion on the Mac, can't install Plan 9 ....
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:08:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711201908.lAKJ82p23840@zamenhof.ewi.utwente.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:37:03 -0800." <3e1162e60711200837t656b716cra2b4d27a07b1061a@mail.gmail.com>

> On Nov 20, 2007 6:59 AM, Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl> wrote:
> > I tried vmware fusion at home some weeks ago.
> >
> > I think I succeeded to install plan 9 in it (tryout demo version).
> > and boot it as well.
> > What I recall is that the graphics were not redrawn properly,
> > i.e. correct graphics, but not all of it visible.
> > Due to this graphics problem I kind of lost interest.
> >
> 
> just "echo hwaccel off > /dev/vgactl"
> 
> It draws nicely then.  I can even boot the live Plan 9 CD, but it will
> not boot from the installed system for some reason.

thanks. that worked.

turns out I lied about succesull installation though (sorry!)
seems I already gave up before installing,
when the 'boot live cd' gave me the redraw issue.

Axel.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-20 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-20 14:51 David Leimbach
2007-11-20 14:59 ` Axel Belinfante
2007-11-20 16:37   ` David Leimbach
2007-11-20 16:43     ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-11-20 17:03       ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-20 17:12         ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-20 17:24           ` David Leimbach
2007-11-20 17:29             ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-20 17:41               ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-11-20 17:46                 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-20 18:32                 ` Tim Wiess
2007-11-20 19:25                   ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-11-21  2:02                     ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-21  2:14                       ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-11-21  2:19                         ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-11-21  2:53                           ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-11-21  2:58                           ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-21  3:08                           ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-21  3:20                             ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-11-20 16:44     ` Richard Bilson
2007-11-20 17:02       ` David Leimbach
2007-11-20 19:08     ` Axel Belinfante [this message]
2007-11-20 20:18       ` David Leimbach
2007-11-21  3:29 erik quanstrom
2007-11-21  3:39 ` andrey mirtchovski

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