From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <37b6f3360706071724l36acfc41u865db0ac839c2f62@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 03:24:56 +0300 From: "Mahmoud AlGammal" 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: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_44305_1511705.1181262296442" References: <46689DFF.8000907@ajft.org> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7af1f130-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_44305_1511705.1181262296442 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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) > > 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. > > 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 > > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGaJ3/IRiOsXzK05QRApIfAKCTliwLgoJNfVbBBWd4GCdvTyJ8MwCg2tZJ > WSYtqskZC5RIwvTg9ntq8Oo= > =WsUc > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Mahmoud AlGammal http://blog.gammal.org/ ------=_Part_44305_1511705.1181262296442 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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.

I found a VMware image at
http://blog.gammal.org/2007/05/plan9-vmware-image.html
(compressed with a weird PC-dude-type compressor)

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.

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

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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