[oi-dev] vmware driver for xorg broken? (spaces replace much of what I type)

[Gordon Ross]

Don't get the driver from the vmware provided tools.
Use the one from openindiana xorg.


On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Michael Kruger <makruger2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/08/2016 11:38 AM, Gordon Ross wrote:
>>
>> [ Was: Whoa! emacs broken? ... ]
>>
>> Out of curiosity, I tried temporarily removing the vmware xorg driver.
>> That eliminates the "damage redraw" bug I described previously.
>> Unfortunately, that leaves the vmware guest restricted to modes that
>> can't cover the host screen, don't resize with the guest window, etc.
>>
>> But anyway, this would seem to narrow down the problem to somewhere in
>> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/amd64/vmware_drv.so
>>
>> Next I guess I'll want instructions for building and debugging that.
>> Any tips for that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gordon
>>
>>
> Hi Gordon,
>
> I don't mean to highjack your thread, but am curious how you have managed to
> load the vmware driver.
> On a fresh install in VMware player, when I run the modinfo command, I only
> see the vga driver loaded.
>
>  92 fffffffff7ccc000   4898 276   1  vgatext (VGA text driver)
>
> The vmware(7) man page suggests the vmware video adapter should be
> auto-detected and automatically load the vmware driver.
> This however does not seem to be the case.
>
> Did you have to create a custom xorg.conf or something?
>
> BTW...my past attempts at installing vmware tools for Solaris have been less
> than successful as doing so usually results in a mouse which no longer
> works.
> Presumably the tools would create a new xorg.conf I would think. The times
> where it didn't kill the mouse, I was still unable to seamlessly move the
> mouse in and out of the virtual machine as can be done with Virtualbox.
>
> I'd like to use vmware player over virtualbox because it's apparent disk
> performance is so much better.
> What I mean is in only takes a few minutes to install OI in vmware player,
> whereas on Virtualbox, it's tens of minutes.
>
> Michael
>
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