I never got it to work correctly, so I built a tiny pc platform for testing. VMware would have been nice, but I had to many weird unexplainable things happen. Just didn't have time to track it down. Hope it works for you though. :-)
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Antonin Vecera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Robert Raschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:58 AM, John Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Greetings fellow 9fans, > >> > >> I am having a strange and annoying issue with Plan9 inside vmware > >> fusion. In both windowed and full screen mode the cursor will, > >> seemingly randomly, "jump" into and out of the VM. That is to say that > >> if Plan9 has control of my mouse, and I move the cursor across the > >> "screen" of the VM, there are regions where the mouse will suddenly be > >> handed over to the Mac OS. I found that drawing a new terminal across > >> the screen will change the areas that are effected. This happens with > >> both "older" installs that I migrated over from VMWare Workstation on > >> Linux as well as "fresh" installs from iso images downloaded as > >> recently as two weeks ago. > >> > >> I have not seen this problem with VMWare workstation. > >> > >> 1) Has anyone else seen this behavior? > >> 2) Is there any known fix for the problem? > >> > >> > > > > I've seen this happen with various guests in a VMware Player. Not sure > > of the version. My workaround was to set the Player to never ever do > > "intelligent" focus. There was a setting somewhere where you could set > > click to focus and key combo to release it again. > > > > I believe the magic mouse focus is one of the features that usually > > only works reliably if you install the VMware guest enhancement > > additions. > > > > Robby > > > > > > Maybe this help you: > > VMware Workstation settings: > > Edit -> Preferences -> Input > uncheck "Grab when cursor enters window" > uncheck "Ungrab when cursor leaves window" > > VMware Player settings: > > preferences.ini > pref.motionGrab = "FALSE" > pref.motionUngrab = "FALSE" > > > Antonin > >
