Re: [9fans] 4th edition vmware install problem

Re: [9fans] 4th edition vmware install problem

[Russ Cox]

You should be able to use the config file Other.vmx
that came in the .tar.bz2 file.  You shouldn't need
to do any more than that.  The package was made using
VMware version 3.1.

Russ

[9fans] vmware video

[vic]

Congratulations on the new release.

I'm having trouble with video under vmware 3.1.
The image is distorted.

Here's a picture since I'm not sure how to describe the
problem.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/vmvga.jpg

I'm running vmware on Linux.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Re: [9fans] vmware video

[paurea]

vic writes:
 > Congratulations on the new release.
 >
 > I'm having trouble with video under vmware 3.1.
 > The image is distorted.
 >
 > Here's a picture since I'm not sure how to describe the
 > problem.
 > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/vmvga.jpg
 >
 > I'm running vmware on Linux.
 >

I have exactly the same problem!!! If you find any solution, please
let me know...

--
                 Saludos,
                         Gorka

"Curiosity sKilled the cat"

Re: [9fans] vmware video

[paurea]

paurea@gsyc.escet.urjc.es writes:
 >  > Here's a picture since I'm not sure how to describe the
 >  > problem.
 >  > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/vmvga.jpg
 >  >
 >  > I'm running vmware on Linux.
 >  >
 >
 > I have exactly the same problem!!! If you find any solution, please
 > let me know...
 >

Found the reason for the problem and a solution. For some reason the
number of colors P9 is using in vmware is not independant of the
number of colors the Xwindows are running with (with windows or linux
as host I think you can use any number of colors which is under the
number of colors of the guest, so this seems to be a bug). It works
well if I run the Xwindows with 16 bpp of depth.
--
                 Saludos,
                         Gorka

"Curiosity sKilled the cat"

Re: [9fans] vmware video

[didi]

zandy@cs.wisc.edu (vic) wrote in message news:<m3g01gcsr8.fsf@localhost.localdomain>...
> Congratulations on the new release.
>
> I'm having trouble with video under vmware 3.1.
> The image is distorted.
>
> Here's a picture since I'm not sure how to describe the
> problem.
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/vmvga.jpg
>
> I'm running vmware on Linux.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.

It's exactly the same problem I am having, with VMware 3.1 under linux
as well as windows 2000.
As user [none] I can log in and inspect some files, but I do not know
how to configure the video. $vgasize is set to 1024x768x16. Maybe
VMware does not support this mode, but where can I set a different
one?
I managed to disable hardware acceleration (I think) for glenda by
mv-ing /rc/bin/termrc.local to something else, but how can I edit a
file when I'm in text mode? acme needs a framebuffer.

Re: [9fans] vmware video

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

Unfortunately, me too...

Switching X to 16 bpp didn't help. I still get a 1024x768 screen with windows/frames, but no text, no mouse/keyboard and strange lines in the windows/frames.

I'm running Win2K guest on Linux host successfully.

I've appended my config file if that's of any use.

-- Vladimir


vic wrote:

>Congratulations on the new release.
>
>I'm having trouble with video under vmware 3.1.
>The image is distorted.
>
>Here's a picture since I'm not sure how to describe the
>problem.
>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/vmvga.jpg
>
>I'm running vmware on Linux.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks.
>

#!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = 6
virtualHW.version = 2
displayName = "Plan 9 from Bell Labs"

# CD-ROM
ide1:0.present = TRUE
ide1:0.fileName = /dev/cdrom1
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ide1:0.startConnected = FALSE

# Virtual hard disk on primary master
ide0:0.present = TRUE
ide0:0.fileName = /mnt/archives/plan9/disk.vmdk
ide0:0.deviceType = ata-hardDisk
ide0:0.mode = persistent
ide0:0.writethrough = FALSE

# Floppy
floppy0.present = "TRUE"
floppy0.fileName = /dev/fd0
floppy0.startConnected = FALSE

# Networked through shared IP address
ethernet0.present = TRUE
ethernet0.connectionType = nat

# Memory size
memsize = 128

# Nvram
nvram = other.nvram

# Log file
log.fileName = plan9.log

# Hints
guestOS = other

>

Re: [9fans] vmware video

[Vangoh]

Hi, the pre-configured plan9 works okay on my win2k box
with VMWare workstation 3.0. This is what I got:

(1) Display: 1024x768x16bit (no 24 bit option) doesn't
work. Same as described by other people.
(2) This workaround works:
 - change display to 800x600x8bit, start plan9 in vmware,
   now everything's fine
 - switch display back to 1024x768x16bit, got exactly what
   I need

yi

Re: [9fans] 4th edition vmware install problem

[paurea]

Russ Cox writes:
 > You should be able to use the config file Other.vmx
 > that came in the .tar.bz2 file.  You shouldn't need
 > to do any more than that.  The package was made using
 > VMware version 3.1.
 >

Hmmm I did that too, after. Same problem with the video though...
--
                 Saludos,
                         Gorka

"Curiosity sKilled the cat"

Re: [9fans] vmware video

[vic]

Fixed.  (Avoided.)

I dropped the depth of the X server 24 to 16, and now
Plan 9 looks fine in vmware.

Vic

> I'm having trouble with video under vmware 3.1.
> The image is distorted.
>
> Here's a picture since I'm not sure how to describe the
> problem.
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/vmvga.jpg

[9fans] 4th edition answers

[Russ Cox]

These are scattered throughout the various web pages and
the notes that Rob posted, but I thought I'd reiterate them
here after getting a few questions.

The file server kernels and kfs in the 4th edition use
the same on-disk layout that the corresponding 3rd edition
programs used.  If you want to convert a SCSI file server,
you should be able to just boot the new kernel, and you'll
have a server that speaks both 3rd edition 9P and 9P2000.
If you have been using Nemo's IDE file server patches, they're
not currently integrated into the fs code, so your life is
a little harder.  I believe Nemo has already started reapplying
them to the 4e code.

There is no wrap update that will convert a 3rd edition
install to a 4th edition install: wrap is no longer used,
and the changes are too great anyway.  Instead, you can
boot the install floppy and point it at the kfs you're
currently using.  The installation will prompt you as to
whether you want to wipe the kfs or keep it.  If you choose
to keep the kfs (the default), your third edition file system
will be moved into /3e.  The installation then configures a
startup menu to let you boot either the 4th or 3rd edition
install.  Of course, you should still back up your files
first anyway.

Wrap is replaced by replica(1).

The distribution archive is no longer the obscure mkext
format but rather a bzipped ISO9660 CD-ROM image, which is
hopefully readable by a larger audience without special tools.

In place of the normal installation floppy and CD-ROM image,
you can download a VMware virtual disk with Plan 9 preinstalled.

As always, post questions here or send them to 9trouble.
Please don't mail us individually.

Enjoy!
Russ

[9fans] 4th edition vmware install problem

[paurea]

Russ Cox writes:
 > In place of the normal installation floppy and CD-ROM image,
 > you can download a VMware virtual disk with Plan 9 preinstalled.
 >

I have downloaded the vmware virtual disk and have some problems
installing it. I had vmware version 2 installed on my machine (with
linux as guest os), but the disk seemed to have been installed under
version 3, so I downloaded vmware version 3.1 (eval version). The
first problem I encountered was that there were three disks:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 paurea   paurea    9173504 Apr 28 03:41 disk-02.vmdk
-rwxr-xr-x    1 paurea   paurea       2560 Apr 28 03:41 disk-03.vmdk
-rwxr-xr-x    1 paurea   paurea   266734080 Apr 28 03:41 disk.vmdk

and no documentation... :-(

I chose the most obvious one (disk.vmdk) and tried to config it. The
problem is that it (seems) to have been made under vmware version 3.0
and so I have display problems. The system seems to boot ok (but for
some starting and stoping of my cdrom) and even starts rio, but the
display is all fouled up in the same way which happens when a svga
card isn't supported.

Is there any known way out of this? what are the two other virtual disks for?

TIA
--
                 Saludos,
                         Gorka

"Curiosity sKilled the cat"