Re: [9fans] rio in cpu/auth server in vmware fusion 2.0

["Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan" <vdharani@gmail.com>]

hi jeff,

after a couple of hiccups, i made my plan9 installation to become a
cpu/auth server as well. i am also able to use graphics screen with
1280x768 resolution. the graphics screen is good enough for me so far.

on the drawterm stuff, yes, i keep using it and it is pretty good. the
only problem with drawterm is inferno graphics screen performance. it
is really bad. you have to use it to believe it. since i use
inferno/inferno-acme most of the time, i think i cant use drawterm.
otherwise, drawterm is really cool.

that apart, i think your suggestion is valid and good, just use VM as
auth/cpu server and do the rest with drawterm.

thanks
dharani

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com> wrote:
> Or better yet, use drawterm to a vmware based Plan 9 stand alone CPU server.
>  Copy/paste works, rio is responsive, and the VMWare host never needs to
> enter graphics mode.  Don't configure the vm for multiple cpus though, that
> doesn't work so well (but virtualizing multiple cpus doesn't really work
> well in Parallels or VirtualBox either, nor on VMWare's ESX servers).
>  Drawterm will go full screen if you like.
>
> Whatever virtualized graphics chipset VMWare is providing really does not
> work well w/ Plan 9.  I've also found it doesn't work so well with any other
> OS I've tried (haven't tried Windows), so you're milage may vary.
>
> Unless you've got some NDA from VMWare in place so that you can write a new
> driver for Plan 9 to use whatever graphics chipset will work, I'd say stop
> trying to make Plan 9 do something it won't be able to do well on VMWare.
>  In fact, take a quick look at VMWare's knowledge base support site as there
> are plenty of references to poor graphics performance even for their
> targeted guest OS.
>
> -jas
>
> On Dec 28, 2008, at 6:29 AM, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> is anyone able to run rio well in plan9 cpu/auth server on vmware fusion
>> 2.0?
>>
>> i am able to run it in stand alone mode. but once i switch to cpu/auth
>> server mode, i only see black screen. then i am able to open new
>> windows, use it to some extent but things get clumsy. i dont see the
>> window borders, etc. what is the one that is not running properly
>> here? is it rio?
>>
>> any clues?
>>
>> thanks
>> dharani
>>
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