If you use 9vx as your terminal, you can run inferno/acme locally, which might improve things a bit, although it still leaves a lot to be desired.
The strange thing with drawterm+inferno is that even video playback over drawterm seems to work better than the painful redrawing of wm apps. Perhaps having inferno apps use the Plan 9 (or drawterm) draw device directly would help, but I seem to remember Charles didn't think it would make a big difference, maybe somebody should test it and see if we can track down where the slowdown comes from... uriel On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan <[email protected]> wrote: > hi jeff, > > after a couple of hiccups, i made my plan9 installation to become a > cpu/auth server as well. i am also able to use graphics screen with > 1280x768 resolution. the graphics screen is good enough for me so far. > > on the drawterm stuff, yes, i keep using it and it is pretty good. the > only problem with drawterm is inferno graphics screen performance. it > is really bad. you have to use it to believe it. since i use > inferno/inferno-acme most of the time, i think i cant use drawterm. > otherwise, drawterm is really cool. > > that apart, i think your suggestion is valid and good, just use VM as > auth/cpu server and do the rest with drawterm. > > thanks > dharani > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Jeff Sickel <[email protected]> wrote: >> Or better yet, use drawterm to a vmware based Plan 9 stand alone CPU server. >> Copy/paste works, rio is responsive, and the VMWare host never needs to >> enter graphics mode. Don't configure the vm for multiple cpus though, that >> doesn't work so well (but virtualizing multiple cpus doesn't really work >> well in Parallels or VirtualBox either, nor on VMWare's ESX servers). >> Drawterm will go full screen if you like. >> >> Whatever virtualized graphics chipset VMWare is providing really does not >> work well w/ Plan 9. I've also found it doesn't work so well with any other >> OS I've tried (haven't tried Windows), so you're milage may vary. >> >> Unless you've got some NDA from VMWare in place so that you can write a new >> driver for Plan 9 to use whatever graphics chipset will work, I'd say stop >> trying to make Plan 9 do something it won't be able to do well on VMWare. >> In fact, take a quick look at VMWare's knowledge base support site as there >> are plenty of references to poor graphics performance even for their >> targeted guest OS. >> >> -jas >> >> On Dec 28, 2008, at 6:29 AM, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan wrote: >> >>> hi, >>> >>> is anyone able to run rio well in plan9 cpu/auth server on vmware fusion >>> 2.0? >>> >>> i am able to run it in stand alone mode. but once i switch to cpu/auth >>> server mode, i only see black screen. then i am able to open new >>> windows, use it to some extent but things get clumsy. i dont see the >>> window borders, etc. what is the one that is not running properly >>> here? is it rio? >>> >>> any clues? >>> >>> thanks >>> dharani >>> >>> >> >> >> > >
