Re: [9fans] Get the message number (aux/vmware fix ?)

[Philippe Anel <philippe.anel@noos.fr>]

At 13:00 26/04/04, you wrote:
>On Mon Apr 26 10:34:58 GMT 2004, philippe.anel@noos.fr wrote:
> > I don't understand. I'm using plan9, vmware and aux/vmware and I haven't
> > problem with the snarf buffer.
> > Could you start aux/vmware again and try the following commands ?
>
>term% aux/vmware
>term% echo -n 'hello' > /dev/snarf
>term% cat /dev/snarf
>term% cat /mnt/vmware/snarf
>term% echo -n 'world' > /mnt/vmware/snarf
>term% cat /dev/snarf
>term% cat /mnt/vmware/snarf
>term% ps ax | grep vmware
>mtg             480    0:00   0:00     136K Pread    vmwarefs

Ok, it seems you disabled Cut and Paste from and to the virtual
machine. Right ?
I suspect a bug from aux/vmwarefs which fails to back copy to
/dev/snarf, the value written to /mnt/vmware/snarf, when Cut
and Paste is disabled from and to the virtual machine.
Could you try the following aux/vmware script :

-------------------------------------------------------cut-----
#!/bin/rc

if(aux/isvmware -s){
         if(test -f '#P/pge'){
                 echo -n on >'#P/pge'    # default, but set anyway.
                 echo -n off >'#P/i8253timerset'
         }
         if(test -f /dev/archctl){
                 echo pge on >/dev/archctl
                 echo coherence nop >/dev/archctl
                 echo i8253set off >/dev/archctl
         }
         for(i in '#S'/sd??)
                 if(test -f $i/ctl)
                         echo dma on >$i/ctl
         echo 'starting vmwarefs'
         aux/vmwarefs
         if(test -f '/mnt/vmware/gui') {
                 x=`{ grep copypaste /mnt/vmware/gui }
                 if(~ $x(2) on){
                         if(! test -f /dev/snarf)
                                 aux/stub /dev/snarf
                         echo 'binding /mnt/vmware/snarf over /dev/snarf'
                         bind /mnt/vmware/snarf /dev/snarf
                 }
         }
         echo 'starting vmmousepoll'
         aux/vmmousepoll &
}
-------------------------------------------------------cut-----

Regards,
         Philippe.