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 > >