From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Doc Shipley To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] VMWare floppy bug In-Reply-To: <15750.5886.52989.155011@nanonic.hilbert.space> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:25:11 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ec6505a8-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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