not sure if this discussion is continued elsewhere, but i thought i will share what i found.

i just installed vmware fusion 2.0.1 (128865), downloaded new plan9 CD image (that probably geoff made yesterday and the one that probably has richard's vmware vga fix) and tried to install plan9.

vgasize: 640x480x8, monitor: xga - this combo works

vgasize: 1024x768x8, monitor: xga - this combo works

i tried 1280x1024x8 and 1280x1024(?!). it seems to hang. no luck with vesa also.

is anyone able to get any better resolution with vmware fusion in mac (or parallels for mac 4.0, if it works for plan9)?

i have 1920x1200 widescreen LCD monitor with DVI and i would like to make good use of more screen space. so i am trying to go up as much as possible.

with parallels for mac 3.0, i was able to use 1920x1200 but i used this setup sparingly so far. i also noticed mouse jumps, poor performance or slow screen updates (e.g. if i open acme window, it would sometimes take 10+ seconds to show the prompt) and some other incomplete screen draw, etc

any help appreciated.

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Ben Calvert <ben@flyingwalrus.net> wrote:

Actually, maybe i'm not being fully clear --

rio starts up during the install, but i get the 'vmware id 0740' error when logging on afterwards.

On Dec 14, 2008, at 4:43 AM, erik quanstrom wrote:

On Sun Dec 14 03:28:08 EST 2008, ben@flyingwalrus.net wrote:

Am encountering the same problem, even though i've just pulled down
the latest sources. Is there something special i should be doing?

thanks,

ben

the kernels on sources have not been rebuilt since this
patch was put up so it's pretty likely that the kernel on
the cd is also older than the patch, too. the solution is
to build your own kernel, but this may be difficult if you
don't have a running machine.

- erik