From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <97D0669D-148B-499B-8620-8961E16880FA@corpus-callosum.com> From: Jeff Sickel To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:06:38 -0600 References: Subject: Re: [9fans] rio in cpu/auth server in vmware fusion 2.0 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7331b992-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Or better yet, use drawterm to a vmware based Plan 9 stand alone CPU server. Copy/paste works, rio is responsive, and the VMWare host never needs to enter graphics mode. Don't configure the vm for multiple cpus though, that doesn't work so well (but virtualizing multiple cpus doesn't really work well in Parallels or VirtualBox either, nor on VMWare's ESX servers). Drawterm will go full screen if you like. Whatever virtualized graphics chipset VMWare is providing really does not work well w/ Plan 9. I've also found it doesn't work so well with any other OS I've tried (haven't tried Windows), so you're milage may vary. Unless you've got some NDA from VMWare in place so that you can write a new driver for Plan 9 to use whatever graphics chipset will work, I'd say stop trying to make Plan 9 do something it won't be able to do well on VMWare. In fact, take a quick look at VMWare's knowledge base support site as there are plenty of references to poor graphics performance even for their targeted guest OS. -jas On Dec 28, 2008, at 6:29 AM, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan wrote: > hi, > > is anyone able to run rio well in plan9 cpu/auth server on vmware > fusion 2.0? > > i am able to run it in stand alone mode. but once i switch to cpu/auth > server mode, i only see black screen. then i am able to open new > windows, use it to some extent but things get clumsy. i dont see the > window borders, etc. what is the one that is not running properly > here? is it rio? > > any clues? > > thanks > dharani > >