From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: matt Message-ID: <2283649171.20010430142045@proweb.co.uk> To: rob pike <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] 9 on VMware In-Reply-To: <20010430121049.55CD919A28@mail.cse.psu.edu> References: <20010430121049.55CD919A28@mail.cse.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:20:45 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 975fbf86-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hello rob, Monday, April 30, 2001, 1:10:47 PM, you wrote: rp> I've tried to boot Plan9 in Vmware, but the VGA-Card seems not to be rp> supported. rp> could anybody help me, or send me a link to a Homepage I could find help. rp> Lots of people have asked for this but no one has done the work. If someone rp> wants to write the drivers for the VMware pseudo-hardware and give us back rp> the changes, I can point them to the necessary information. We don't run rp> VMware so it's not a priority for us. rp> -rob I think it would be a major benefit to potential users. Either for VMWare which runs Win/Linux or even win4Lin wich runs on Linux (or maybe even bochs) It would save heaps on writing drivers for all that esoteric hardware out there, if you invested some time into doing a reference VMWare set of stuff for FS, CPU and term. Surely, people get turned off plan9 by having to find specific hardware just to try it out! -- Best regards, matt mailto:matt@proweb.co.uk