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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vladimir@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] vmware video
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:44:39 +0000
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Unfortunately, me too...

Switching X to 16 bpp didn't help. I still get a 1024x768 screen with windows/frames, but no text, no mouse/keyboard and strange lines in the windows/frames.

I'm running Win2K guest on Linux host successfully.

I've appended my config file if that's of any use.

-- Vladimir


vic wrote:

>Congratulations on the new release.
>
>I'm having trouble with video under vmware 3.1.
>The image is distorted.
>
>Here's a picture since I'm not sure how to describe the
>problem.
>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/vmvga.jpg
>
>I'm running vmware on Linux.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks.
>

#!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = 6
virtualHW.version = 2
displayName = "Plan 9 from Bell Labs"

# CD-ROM
ide1:0.present = TRUE
ide1:0.fileName = /dev/cdrom1
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ide1:0.startConnected = FALSE

# Virtual hard disk on primary master
ide0:0.present = TRUE
ide0:0.fileName = /mnt/archives/plan9/disk.vmdk
ide0:0.deviceType = ata-hardDisk
ide0:0.mode = persistent
ide0:0.writethrough = FALSE

# Floppy
floppy0.present = "TRUE"
floppy0.fileName = /dev/fd0
floppy0.startConnected = FALSE

# Networked through shared IP address
ethernet0.present = TRUE
ethernet0.connectionType = nat

# Memory size
memsize = 128

# Nvram
nvram = other.nvram

# Log file
log.fileName = plan9.log

# Hints
guestOS = other

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