[9fans] plan9 on VMware, venti on p9p, mostly works

[9fans] plan9 on VMware, venti on p9p, mostly works

[Adrian Tritschler]

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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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Re: [9fans] plan9 on VMware, venti on p9p, mostly works

[Steve Simon]

> I have to use VMware on the system for work-related porpoises

I hate it when dolphins get involved with machine emulation.

:-)

-Steve

Re: [9fans] plan9 on VMware, venti on p9p, mostly works

[Mahmoud AlGammal]

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Hello,

Actually it was me who created that image (and 7zip was used because I don't
have a wide uplink, and I wanted to upload the file quickly). As a solution
for the problems you mentioned, I suggest using drawterm to connect to your
VM. This should solve the two problems you describe, and you also won't need
to press Ctrl+Alt every time you switch from host to guest or vice versa.

On 6/8/07, Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org> wrote:
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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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Mahmoud AlGammal
http://blog.gammal.org/

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Re: [9fans] plan9 on VMware, venti on p9p, mostly works

[Federico Benavento]

hola,

yes, it works, every now an then I get a private mail asking for help to set
up Plan 9 on vmware :)

> 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)
>
heh, 7zip is not that weird ;)


> 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
>

I set mouseport to ps2intellimouse, the snaf thing you're talking about it's
because vmware guys changed something, the magic is in /386/bin/aux/vmware
(note, it's a script) basically you have to comment the line that runs aux/stub
and the one that binds /mnt/vmware/snarf over /dev/snarf, I also have the
echo hwaccel off > /dev/vgactl there instead of in /rc/bin/termrc, since I use
vmware to boot a Plan 9 installed in harddisk.

making your vmware Plan 9 a cpu server and drawterming to it is a better choice.


> 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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Federico G. Benavento