From: Doc Shipley <doc@mdrconsult.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] VMWare floppy bug
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:25:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209161317460.15602-100000@george.home.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15750.5886.52989.155011@nanonic.hilbert.space>
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 paurea@gsyc.escet.urjc.es wrote:
> The floppy on the vmware (running under linux, vmware version 3.1)
> gives random errors. I have noticed it while making boot floppys using
> cat ndisk>/dev/fd0. They usually (something like 3 times out of 4)
> give a CRC error while booting. I also get I/O errors "floppy changed
> during operation" from the linux kernel (they keep repeating while the
> vmware is on, but they seem to happen with other os's and I have never
> had any problem using the floppy with them, though that may be caused
> by not enough testing). Has anyone noticed this too?. Is it a vmware
> problem or plan9 problem?. Any idea of how to solve it?
The I/O errors are a vmware thing. I haven't tried making floppies in
the Plan9 VM, but in other clients its mostly harmless. It *is* quite
annoying.
> Also related with VMWare, is there any way to make plan9 free the
> cursor when it reaches the margin of the window? (like on windows or linux
> do when you install thw VMWare tools). To get the cursor trapped is
> annoying.
Only if you can get VMware to write a "Plan9 Toolbox" The utility
that does that runs in the VM, not the host OS. Bummer for us.
Doc
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2002-09-16 17:38 paurea
2002-09-16 18:25 ` Doc Shipley [this message]
2002-09-16 18:18 Russ Cox
2002-09-16 20:03 Russ Cox
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