From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:09:41 -0800 From: "Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Subject: Re: [9fans] vmware fusion - plan9 snarf issue Topicbox-Message-UUID: 73139b88-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 hi russ, okay, this confirms some of the postings in the past. in my opinion, this shortfall is really a bad one. cut-and-paste is something very common operation (that too in plan9). it is really difficult to live without it. i wonder why it has to be this complicated in vmware. btw this is what i noticed: - if i mark(sweep) some text and press middle button in acme or use send in rio, it works as intended. - if i mark, cut and paste right there, then also its fine. - anything else goes for a toss. in fact, the cut and paste buffer even seems to bring a copy buffer content of previous instance of guest OS after which i rebooted. - this issue seems to have shown up in linux OS as well. so plan9 is probaly yet another platform that got affected. i am also trying to see if i can keep vmware fusion setup as file server and avoid using the console (currently snarf buffer issue is the major issue for me). i am trying to use drwaterm or so to use plan9. i hope i can resolve my cpu/auth server setup issues. thanks dharani On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Russ Cox wrote: >> snarf doesnt work properly in plan9 on vmware fusion 2.0 for mac. from what >> i found this seems to be a known issue. is there any fix available? > > no; someone needs to write a new version > of the vmware tools that works with the latest > vmware versions. > > russ > >