echo hwaccel off > /dev/vgactl
In VMWare Server (and possibly other versions), although the installation can be done using either IDE or SCSI cdrom drives for the hosted OS, it is necessary to switch the virtual machine's cdrom type to SCSI prior to actually booting Plan 9 from the hard drive.
See Vmware_playground_for_plan9 and vmware4
AUDIO for VmWARE Server
VmWare Server was made to bring up sb16 emulation; however not without some extraneous artifacts in the audio. There seem to be timing problems. Perhaps someone knows a better setting to implement. Here is my setup:
Find your vmx file where the Vmware Guest files are stored: (e.g. /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/plan9/plan9.vmx)
Make sure the configuration does not have a sound card installed by the Vmware wizard.
Then edit your vmx configuration file with your favorite text editor, and add the following lines:
sound.present = "TRUE" sound.virtualDev = "sb16" sound.baseAddr = "0x220" sound.dma16 = "5" sound.dma8 = "1" sound.irq = "5" sound.mpu401baseAddr = "0x330" sound.Opl3BaseAddr = "0x388" sound.smallBlockSize = 1024 sound.maxLength = 2048 sound.buffering = "10000000000.0" sound.copyDelayFactor = "1000000.0" sound.directSound = "false" sound.highPriority = "true" sound.ignoreOverflows = "true" sound.virtualrealcorrection ="10000000000.0" pciSound.priorityBoost = "true"
Then boot your Plan 9 guest and add the following to plan9.ini:
audio0=type=sb16 port=0x220 irq=5 dma=5
Before trying the audio feature, you must reboot your Plan 9 guest and once logged in, do:
term% bind -a '#A' /dev
Make sure the rio window covers a significant area of the screen, or otherwise the audio driver seems to give garbage beeps and groans instead of the audio you want.
term % cat a000 > /dev/audio
The audio that comes out is interrupted by short and frequent timing jitters. When you resize the rio window while the audio is playing, the artifacts go away for awhile, but there is a more pronounced interruption during the resizing operation.
Otto Schulze
American Conservatory of Music http://www.americanconservatory.edu