Actually I used Plan9 on VMWare workstation for Linux for quite a
while without too many problems. Then again all I was doing was
working though Nemo's book. :)

VMWare Fusion is definitely not yet ready for prime time, I have
noticed some interoperability problems with other Guest OSes (FreeBSD)
and a few "heisenburg" type issues on Linux. I have also started to
experience conditions where Plan9 will not boot, complaining of divide
errors or memory problems, then boot w/o issue after sending a
ctrl-alt-del from the pulldown menu. I suppose that's why its half the
price of VMWare Workstation...

Lakshmi, from VMWare support, blew me off at the mere mentioning of Plan 9.

As for setting up physical hardware, I am on the tail end of a 11
month contract in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I need more stuff like I need
a hole in my head. I prefer virtualization-related silliness to
dealing with the "experts" in th local computer souk and subsequent
sale/transportation of the gear when its time to go home.

Ghabi kushi kabi kam.

*sigh*
Johnny

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Adrian Tritschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/8/27 Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>>> I had the same problem under VMware workstation 5.5 and couldn't solve
>>> it, I ended up working around it by making the VMware plan9 system a
>>> cpu/auth box and connecting to it with drawterm from the linux host
>>> system.
>>
>> it is not this problem?
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/msg/96b8706125ee5c42
>
> Suggestion is to "echo -n hwaccel off >/dev/vgactl"
>
> From memory that helped, but didn't get rid of the problem entirely on
> my system.  It made the graphics usable/readable, but the mouse was
> still wildly erratic.
>
>  Adrian
>
>

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