Re: [9fans] plan9 on VMware, venti on p9p, mostly works

["Mahmoud AlGammal" <mahmoud@gammal.org>]

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Hello,

Actually it was me who created that image (and 7zip was used because I don't
have a wide uplink, and I wanted to upload the file quickly). As a solution
for the problems you mentioned, I suggest using drawterm to connect to your
VM. This should solve the two problems you describe, and you also won't need
to press Ctrl+Alt every time you switch from host to guest or vice versa.

On 6/8/07, Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org> wrote:
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> Just in case anyone is interested, it does seem possible to run the
> current plan9 in VMware workstation v5.
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> I found a VMware image at
> http://blog.gammal.org/2007/05/plan9-vmware-image.html
> (compressed with a weird PC-dude-type compressor)
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> I'm running venti on the linux host under p9p, three 512M arenas in
> /usr/local/venti, and have configured the p9 fossil to use it -- no
> problems there.
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> 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
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> 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
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Mahmoud AlGammal
http://blog.gammal.org/

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