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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 ....
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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:08:02 +0100
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> 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.