Re: [9fans] vmware workstation 6

[Adrian John Fidel Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org>]

Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com> writes:

> On Oct 23, 2007, at 5:23 PM, David Leimbach wrote:
>> On 9/18/07, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:

>>>> Try disabling the vga hw acceleration. I had some problems with it
>>>> and vmware.

>>> thank you steve and esoriano. i had tried that first but apparently
>>> i mistyped it. your reaffirmation and a few hours of sleep made all
>>> the difference.

>> I'm running VMWare Fusion on a Mac, my hardware acceleration in
>> VMWare is off, but I still get the problem with black screen and
>> weird Rio behavior.

>> Is there a Plan 9 option to try here?

> I got the install to work by forcing in the hwaccel off.  But then
> logging in as glenda to start setting things up just didn't get far
> enough to force in hwaccel off again.
>
> I'd like to know if anyone has had any success with VMware ESX Server?
> Yes yes... same old problem as all VMware kit, but when you  can't get
> any other vm's in house you do with what you can.

I've had a brief attempt to install on a minimal guest VM under ESX 3
host; 512M RAM/2G vmfs allocated.  Booting off the install CD download
on 29-Oct-2007 I only get this far:

PBS1...Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ELCR: 0A00
apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=40 di=ffff ebx=5651 esi=-1
non-disk device 0x0 of type 1
bios0: drive 0x80: 2146798080 bytes, type 3
biosinit: sorry, only one bios drive; can't read last one
dev A0 port 1F0 config 85C4 capabilities 0f00 mwdma 0007 udma 0407
found partition sdC0!cdboot; 49952+1440
sectread: bios failed ot read 512 @ sector 1073741822 of 0x80
using sdC0!cdboot!plan9.ini
.FLAGS=10286 TRAP=e ECODE=2 PC-80017bfa
  AX 8cf001ed  BX 80036915  CX 800446bc  DX 0000003d
  SI 00000000  DI 80001373  BP 80001250
  CS 0010 DS 0008  ES 0008  FS 0008  GS 0008
  CR0 800000011 CR2 8cf001ed CR3 0000c0000
panic: exception/interrupt 14

> And speaking of vm's... has anyone gotten qemu to work on OS X?  It
> installs very nicely but then there aren't any options for getting a
> middle button w/ key-click combinations--very difficult when running
> on a laptop.

  Adrian