Re: [9fans] Q: About screenshots

[jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]

On Tue Oct  7 07:44:52 EDT 2003, arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> By the way, is it possible to get screen shot with mouse cursor?
> >>>>
> >>>> Kenji Arisawa
> >
> > Yup. with vmware :-).
> > 			Gorka
>
> Yes, such an environment is really useful in writing manual.
> We can get snapshots of installation process that are impossible
> on native OS.
> I am using Virtual PC for this purpose.
> I really want Plan 9 can work with network on Virtual PC.
>
> Kenji Arisawa

When I read that I thought "Oh no, here's the Virtual PC question
again", so I had a go at making it work. I downloaded the trial version
from Microsoft (yes, they now own the Windows version, not Connectix),
it's version 5.2. The ethernet and host chipset emulated have changed
to ones Plan 9 has drivers for, as it does for the video adapter. I had
to make some small changes to the PCI code (I thought I'd fixed it
before, but apparently not); there are updated /sys/src/9/pc/pci.c
and /sys/src/boot/pc/pci.c on sources.

After that it works fine. The video is restricted on Plan 9 to be only
8-bits deep and doesn't know about the extra 4MB the framebuffer has,
but that's just because we never did the code in aux/vga for the Trio64
chip at any higher depths. It's left as an exercise for the user.

If you have any problems and you get back to me before the trial version
times out I will try to help.

--jim

P.S. I'm writing this in an virtual PC.