From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] vmware workstation 6
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:36:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60710250636t47524b9as8295ef292e339263@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43196B62-49F8-4387-9B6C-D4EEBE9E4354@corpus-callosum.com>
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On 10/25/07, Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 23, 2007, at 5:23 PM, David Leimbach wrote:
>
> > On 9/18/07, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Try disabling the vga hw acceleration. I had some
> >>> problems with it and vmware.
> >>
> >> thank you steve and esoriano. i had tried that first but apparently
> >> i mistyped it. your reaffirmation and a few hours of sleep made
> >> all the difference.
> >>
> >>
> > I'm running VMWare Fusion on a Mac, my hardware acceleration in
> > VMWare is
> > off, but I still get the problem with black screen and weird Rio
> > behavior.
> >
> > Is there a Plan 9 option to try here?
>
> I got the install to work by forcing in the hwaccel off. But then
> logging in as glenda to start setting things up just didn't get far
> enough to force in hwaccel off again.
I got that far too. With IDE and SCSI, Venti seems to hang there. Did you
use fossil+venti or just fossil?
Had to manually screw up the monitor settings to get the opportunity to turn
off hwaccel though. I wish this were a boot option in the install mode :-).
Also aux/vmware doesn't work on Fusion.
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-18 6:01 Skip Tavakkolian
2007-09-18 9:01 ` Enrique Soriano
2007-09-18 14:17 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-10-23 22:23 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-25 7:04 ` Jeff Sickel
2007-10-25 8:03 ` Enrique Soriano
2007-10-25 13:44 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-25 13:36 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2007-10-25 18:18 ` Tim Newsham
2007-10-25 20:46 ` don bailey
2007-11-04 0:21 ` Adrian John Fidel Tritschler
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