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* [9fans] resizing desktops under vmware vs. parallels
@ 2010-09-05  2:29 Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
  2010-09-05  7:54 ` James Chapman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) @ 2010-09-05  2:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

[ Let me try again, this time hitting Post vs |fmt :-) ]

For ages I've run diskless terminals under Parallels, and aux/vga would
quite cheerfully resize the Parallels window to match anything I told it.

Recently I had to migrate from Parallels to Fusion.  Resizing doesn't
work any more.  Furthermore, I'm buggered if I can programmatically
figure out what combinations of screen size+depth will work in Fusion
without making the terminal instance panic.  The list archives and the
wiki are absent of advice.  Looking at the aux/vga output I also can't
parse a set of likely screen dimension values.  Has anyone else
successfully wrestled with this?




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* Re: [9fans] resizing desktops under vmware vs. parallels
  2010-09-05  2:29 [9fans] resizing desktops under vmware vs. parallels Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
@ 2010-09-05  7:54 ` James Chapman
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: James Chapman @ 2010-09-05  7:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

monitor=cinema
vgasize=1280x768x24

works for me.

James

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
<lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
> [ Let me try again, this time hitting Post vs |fmt :-) ]
>
> For ages I've run diskless terminals under Parallels, and aux/vga would
> quite cheerfully resize the Parallels window to match anything I told it.
>
> Recently I had to migrate from Parallels to Fusion.  Resizing doesn't
> work any more.  Furthermore, I'm buggered if I can programmatically
> figure out what combinations of screen size+depth will work in Fusion
> without making the terminal instance panic.  The list archives and the
> wiki are absent of advice.  Looking at the aux/vga output I also can't
> parse a set of likely screen dimension values.  Has anyone else
> successfully wrestled with this?
>
>
>



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