Re: [9fans] Mouse jumps in vmware

2008-12-11 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
Maybe someone will be motivated to fill in the rest using the latest and greatest VMware API instead of one from seven and a half years ago. Russ, is this the right API? http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/

Re: [9fans] Mouse jumps in vmware

2008-12-11 Thread Russ Cox
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Skip Tavakkolian 9...@9netics.com wrote: Maybe someone will be motivated to fill in the rest using the latest and greatest VMware API instead of one from seven and a half years ago. Russ, is this the right API? http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/

Re: [9fans] Mouse jumps in vmware

2008-12-11 Thread Rodolfo kix Garcia
Ummm, I am not sure if the problem is vmware-tools, probably not (and Plan 9 is not the problem too). I am using linux + plan9port + acme and I get the same problem ... I am confused... BSOD @ me Skip Tavakkolian escribió: Maybe someone will be motivated to fill in the rest using the

Re: [9fans] Mouse jumps in vmware

2008-12-09 Thread Russ Cox
Wrong: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Now maybe somebody will release the code for the /bin/aux/vm* vmware tools so we can fix them. In order to get the information that I used to write aux/vmware, I signed an NDA that prohibits me from releasing the source code, regardless of what

Re: [9fans] Mouse jumps in vmware

2008-12-07 Thread Rodolfo kix Garcia
Hi Lucio, I am happy with vmware. Is very good environment for my plan9, because my wifi card is not supported, ... the problem is vmware is to avoid comments about it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Yes, I know, the problem is vmware :-) No, the problem is _not_ vmware. At least to

Re: [9fans] Mouse jumps in vmware

2008-12-07 Thread lucio
I am happy with vmware. Is very good environment for my plan9, because my wifi card is not supported, ... No offence intended or taken, I just thought that vmware generally get an undeservedly bad rap on this list :-) ++L

Re: [9fans] Mouse jumps in vmware

2008-12-07 Thread Rodolfo kix Garcia
I tryed xen, qemu and vmware ... and IMO vmware is better for my plan9 virtual machines. In other thread (probably long) ... we need think about to support any emulated software. We are not many people and write drivers is a hard work. I am not sure what is the rate of 9fans using

Re: [9fans] Mouse jumps in vmware

2008-12-07 Thread Uriel
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 9:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I know, the problem is vmware :-) No, the problem is _not_ vmware. At least to the extent that vmware is just another hardware model. The only really unfortunate thing about vmware is that they are holding a few cards close to

Re: [9fans] Mouse jumps in vmware

2008-12-07 Thread erik quanstrom
We are not many people and write drivers is a hard work. why not give it a shot? writing drivers is the most straightforward and rewarding part of my job. - erik

Re: [9fans] Mouse jumps in vmware

2008-12-07 Thread Richard Miller
writing drivers is the most straightforward Have you found some devices with fully documented programming interfaces, which actually behave as the documentation describes? Lucky man. and rewarding part of my job. There I agree with you. But I like solving puzzles.

Re: [9fans] Mouse jumps in vmware

2008-12-07 Thread erik quanstrom
writing drivers is the most straightforward Have you found some devices with fully documented programming interfaces, which actually behave as the documentation describes? Lucky man. sure. intel writes good documentation these days. - erik