From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <82c890d00510202346v29ceb23aq@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:46:12 +0200 From: Gabriel Diaz To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] free vmware player and plan9 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <7179e89785e22c15246da54778ae65fb@9netics.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9dddafec-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi If you have a machine created with vmware 4, you can run it in vmware 5 without problems (at least i haven't noticed problems). Probably player will still have support to "play" vmware 4 machines, but i didn't tested it yet. The machines created with vmware5 doesn't have rio, but they have network, so you can drawterm to them. I didn't tested the vesa driver with vmware 5. Gabi 2005/10/21, Russ Cox : > > has anyone tried plan9 on vmware's free player? > > it's probably going to fail for the same reasons that > it fails on vmware 5. > > russ >