From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] vmware confused about color depth From: "Russ Cox" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 23:48:23 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ab7ee7ce-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I've had two people report problems with vmware 4 and plan9 under windows > (plan9 not booting at all) which I'm waiting for my own vmware 4 version to > confirm... i'm running it on two machines. one works great. the other seems to have decided to send clock interrupts arbitrarily fast. also the nat's dns stopped working a week or two ago (vmware 3.2) so i upgraded to 4 and it still didn't work. not sure how i managed that. > It may not be a consolation, but you'll find that you're much better off > using drawterm with vmware than the vmware window itself. the interaction > between X and drawterm is much better (mouse/keyboard-wise) than between X > and vmware (I personally hate "mouse grabbing"); besides, drawterm windows > can be resized at will :) i disagree with this. in windows at least, full screen mode lets you forget you've even got another operating system. (in linux, full screen mode doesn't give a hardware mouse, so it doesn't work so well.)