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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:18:45 -0800
From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] VMWare Fusion on the Mac, can't install Plan 9 ....
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On Nov 20, 2007 11:08 AM, Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl> wrote:
> > On Nov 20, 2007 6:59 AM, Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl> wrote:
> > > I tried vmware fusion at home some weeks ago.
> > >
> > > I think I succeeded to install plan 9 in it (tryout demo version).
> > > and boot it as well.
> > > What I recall is that the graphics were not redrawn properly,
> > > i.e. correct graphics, but not all of it visible.
> > > Due to this graphics problem I kind of lost interest.
> > >
> >
> > just "echo hwaccel off > /dev/vgactl"
> >
> > It draws nicely then.  I can even boot the live Plan 9 CD, but it will
> > not boot from the installed system for some reason.
>
> thanks. that worked.
>
> turns out I lied about succesull installation though (sorry!)
> seems I already gave up before installing,
> when the 'boot live cd' gave me the redraw issue.
>
> Axel.
>

No worries, glad that worked.