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From: Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] plan9 on VMware, venti on p9p, mostly works
Date: Fri,  8 Jun 2007 10:08:31 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46689DFF.8000907@ajft.org> (raw)

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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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             reply	other threads:[~2007-06-08  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-08  0:08 Adrian Tritschler [this message]
2007-06-08  0:23 ` Steve Simon
2007-06-08  0:24 ` Mahmoud AlGammal
2007-06-08  0:31 ` Federico Benavento

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