From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <32d987d50706071731q7ea2c8f0l46cc94ffab039df9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 02:31:00 +0200 From: "Federico Benavento" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 on VMware, venti on p9p, mostly works In-Reply-To: <46689DFF.8000907@ajft.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46689DFF.8000907@ajft.org> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7b69a860-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 hola, yes, it works, every now an then I get a private mail asking for help to set up Plan 9 on vmware :) > Just in case anyone is interested, it does seem possible to run the > current plan9 in VMware workstation v5. > > I found a VMware image at > http://blog.gammal.org/2007/05/plan9-vmware-image.html > (compressed with a weird PC-dude-type compressor) > heh, 7zip is not that weird ;) > The only problems I've found is that cut/snarf don't seem to work > correctly, the snarf buffer seems to always be full of what was > copied/cut on the host system, and the mouse cursor won't always behave > itself -- sometimes when it gets into the lower 20% of the screen it > leaps straight to the bottom, and a bit to the left. > > Any suggestions on fixing the mouse? I use "mouseport=ps2" in plan9.ini > I set mouseport to ps2intellimouse, the snaf thing you're talking about it's because vmware guys changed something, the magic is in /386/bin/aux/vmware (note, it's a script) basically you have to comment the line that runs aux/stub and the one that binds /mnt/vmware/snarf over /dev/snarf, I also have the echo hwaccel off > /dev/vgactl there instead of in /rc/bin/termrc, since I use vmware to boot a Plan 9 installed in harddisk. making your vmware Plan 9 a cpu server and drawterming to it is a better choice. > Why? I have to use VMware on the system for work-related porpoises so I > tried the plan9 image to see if it was workable. > > Adrain -- Federico G. Benavento