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.