From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:08:31 +1000 From: Adrian Tritschler To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <46689DFF.8000907@ajft.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) Subject: [9fans] plan9 on VMware, venti on p9p, mostly works Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7ae83654-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGaJ3/IRiOsXzK05QRApIfAKCTliwLgoJNfVbBBWd4GCdvTyJ8MwCg2tZJ WSYtqskZC5RIwvTg9ntq8Oo= =WsUc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----