Re: [9fans] booting in vmware server

[john@csplan9.rit.edu]

> Thanks; that did the trick. I also found that, apparently, if I select
> root from tcp, type in fs and auth IPs and my user name, then wait for
> a very long time, I get a prompt from the auth server. The problem
> is that this takes a VERY long time. Not fun. What networking option
> did you use? I'm thinking that may be at stake?
>
>
> John

And by "at stake" I meant "at fault", but my mind was rather elsewhere.
Anyway, I found that through incredible patience I was able to
eventually get a username/password prompt and start rio, which
now works acceptably, considering I'm connecting to a New York
server from Hawaii. Does anyone know why it would be taking so
long to ask for authentication?

I figure I'll go ahead and put "echo hwaccel off > /dev/vgactl" into
/rc/bin/termrc, since I don't forsee any other terminals connecting
in the near future, besides perhaps some more vmware ones.
What differences could I expect to see if I was to try using a real
machine with hwaccel turned off, anyway?

Thanks so much; enjoying my new terminal :)



John