On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote:
> Where's the source code for vmwarefs located?
http://9fans.net/archive/2008/12/180
Russ
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 10:21 -0800, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> >> snarf doesnt work properly in plan9 on vmware fusion 2.0 for mac. from what
> >> i found this seems to be a known issue. is there any fix available?
> >
> > no; someone needs to write a new version
> > of the vmware tools that works w
> i've been reviewing open-vm-tools[1] and Russ' vmwarefs. from what i
> can tell the old backdoor (low bandwidth) mechanism is still supported
> and the protocol hasn't changed. there's an alternative high
> bandwidth mechanism but i'm not sure if the advent of the high
> bandwidth rpc was later
>> snarf doesnt work properly in plan9 on vmware fusion 2.0 for mac. from what
>> i found this seems to be a known issue. is there any fix available?
>
> no; someone needs to write a new version
> of the vmware tools that works with the latest
> vmware versions.
>
> russ
i've been reviewing open
hi anthony/russ,
okay, this is what i see now:
- with stand-alone kernel, i do see the snarf issue as i mentioned.
- however, i completed the installation to make it auth/cpu server. i
think i added a couple of devices in the config file, built the image
and used it for booting as auth/cpu server
to be clear, this behavior is while running the old plan 9 vmware
tool, right? without that, i'd expect the snarf buffer to work
properly within the guest environment, but you won't have any way to
get things out.
hi russ,
okay, this confirms some of the postings in the past.
in my opinion, this shortfall is really a bad one. cut-and-paste is
something very common operation (that too in plan9). it is really
difficult to live without it. i wonder why it has to be this
complicated in vmware.
btw this is wha
> snarf doesnt work properly in plan9 on vmware fusion 2.0 for mac. from what
> i found this seems to be a known issue. is there any fix available?
no; someone needs to write a new version
of the vmware tools that works with the latest
vmware versions.
russ
hi,
quick question.
snarf doesnt work properly in plan9 on vmware fusion 2.0 for mac. from what
i found this seems to be a known issue. is there any fix available?
any help appreciated.
thanks
dharani
