Re: [9fans] Plan9 on virtual machine in Mac os

On Mar 25, 2020, at 3:32 AM, Mark Everett wrote: > > Does anyone know of a virtual machine running on current Mac OS that hosts > plan9? Preferably one that isn’t too difficult to set up…. Hi Mark, I run both 9front and 9legacy on macOS with Qemu. The installation of qemu 4.2.0 was a breeze

Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Anthony Sorace wrote: > > With iOS getting first-class mouse pointer support, I’m looking at the iOS > drawterm port again. Has anyone touched this since the old GSoC project bit > rotted out? Drawterm is quite slow at reading and writing pixels on the screen.

Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 07:19, Kim Lassila wrote: > > >> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Anthony Sorace wrote: >> >> With iOS getting first-class mouse pointer support, I’m looking at the iOS >> drawterm port again. Has anyone touched this since the old GSoC project bit >> rotted out? > > Draw

Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

On Mar 25, 2020, at 14:42, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: > > http://man.9front.org/1/vnc ? > > Unless you're talking about legacy Plan 9? Yes, I have tested vncs and vncv in 9front. They were written for the old protocol version 3.3 which does not support local mouse cursor or resizing the screen. It

Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

VNC is great for what it is, and I certainly wouldn’t object to seeing vncs upgraded, but it is not a replacement for drawterm. It does not expose local devices in a plan 9 friendly way. In addition to just using drawterm as a straightforward terminal, an iOS version would be a very good platfor

Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

> Yes, I have tested vncs and vncv in 9front. They were written for the old > protocol version 3.3 which does not support local mouse cursor or resizing > the screen. It would improve the usability quite a bit if support for the > latest protocol was added to these programs. Mouse cursor drawn b

Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

how about vnc + drawterm -G; 2 connections? just a wild suggestion. -G (no graphics) is a feature of 9front's drawterm, but i think it should connect to labs. red cursor is a little 9front hack; it's transparent to red only. i'm sure it could be reverted fairly easily, but the cursor is too sma

Re: [9fans] iOS drawterm

rummaging around /mnt/term when using drawterm might be enlightening. On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 4:20 AM Kim Lassila wrote: > > > On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Anthony Sorace wrote: > > With iOS getting first-class mouse pointer support, I’m looking at the iOS > drawterm port again. Has anyone touc

Re: [9fans] Plan9 on virtual machine in Mac os

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 6:39 AM, Cyber Fonic wrote: > I have been using Russ Cox's 9vx on OS/X Mavericks > with considerable success. The only issue being that I need to connect a > Logitech 3 button mouse via a Unifying RF dongle (BlueTooth mice don't work > for me).

Re: [9fans] Plan9 on virtual machine in Mac os

On Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 02:02:40 PM EDT, Ethan Gardener wrote: > i still miss 9vx. it was so convenient when it > worked. fun too; i had it full-screened in a little > ... Was? I still use it everyday. It's my primary terminal. I have it take the root from my file server when I'm on my ho

Re: [9fans] Plan9 on virtual machine in Mac os

9legacy.org has readymade images to run on qemu and GCE. http://9legacy.org/download.html On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 6:34 PM Mark Everett wrote: > Mostly a lurker so far, but wanted to try the actual system rather than > plan9port. But sometimes getting actual hardware up an running is a steep >

Re: [9fans] Plan9 on virtual machine in Mac os

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Re: [9fans] Plan9 on virtual machine in Mac os

Thanks to all. I appreciate your support. And its nice to find a forum where everyone isn’t harassing….. — Mark > On Mar 25, 2020, at 2:44 AM, Cyber Fonic wrote: > > As for strings to pull, try: > > String 1 > > String 2

Re: [9fans] Plan9 on virtual machine in Mac os

Harassing part costs extra :) On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 2:36 PM Mark Everett wrote: > Thanks to all. I appreciate your support. And its nice to find a forum > where everyone isn’t harassing….. > > — Mark > > > On Mar 25, 2020, at 2:44 AM, Cyber Fonic wrote: > > As for strings to pull, try: > > St

Re: [9fans] Plan9 on virtual machine in Mac os

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 8:11 PM, Brian L. Stuart wrote: > On Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 02:02:40 PM EDT, Ethan Gardener > wrote: > > i still miss 9vx. it was so convenient when it > > worked. fun too; i had it full-screened in a little > > ... > > Was? I still use it everyday. It's my primary >

Re: [9fans] Plan9 on virtual machine in Mac os

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 9:30 PM, Nicolas S. Montanaro wrote: > VMware works excellently with 9front on macOS. No quirks - just install > as usual. 9vx doesn't even require installation as such, which is nice but doesn't matter so much in the long term. (but i did have trouble getting vmware its