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 what i noticed:

- if i mark(sweep) some text and press middle button in acme or use
send in rio, it works as intended.
- if i mark, cut and paste right there, then also its fine.
- anything else goes for a toss. in fact, the cut and paste buffer
even seems to bring a copy buffer content of previous instance of
guest OS after which i rebooted.
- this issue seems to have shown up in linux OS as well. so plan9 is
probaly yet another platform that got affected.

i am also trying to see if i can keep vmware fusion setup as file
server and avoid using the console (currently snarf buffer issue is
the major issue for me). i am trying to use drwaterm or so to use
plan9. i hope i can resolve my cpu/auth server setup issues.

thanks
dharani

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Russ Cox <[email protected]> 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 with the latest
> vmware versions.
>
> russ
>
>

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