Re: [9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread John Waters
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) a

Re: [9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread Adrian Tritschler
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 pro

Re: [9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
> 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/

Re: [9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread Adrian Tritschler
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. Unfortunately it was all on a single IDE disk and a hardware failure destroyed the

Re: [9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread David Paul
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

Re: [9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread Antonin Vecera
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 t

Re: [9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread Robert Raschke
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 s

[9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

2008-08-26 Thread John Waters
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