>> 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
i've been reviewing open-vm-tools[1] and Russ' vmwarefs. from what i can tell the old backdoor (low bandwidth) mechanism is still supported and the protocol hasn't changed. there's an alternative high bandwidth mechanism but i'm not sure if the advent of the high bandwidth rpc was later than plan9's vmware tools (Russ?). i setup a new vm (workstation v. 6.5.1) and installed from the latest iso image and compared it to my existing vm (4.5.3) running an older kernel. the results from directly io to /mnt/vmware/snarf are the same as far as i can tell. this pattern is consistent: the snarf buffer of the Plan 9 guest can be made visible in Windows host consistently ONLY if in Plan 9 guest, the snarf file is read before writing to it. that is: cat /mnt/vmware/snarf echo 1 > /mnt/vmware/snarf then the host and the guest os clipboard correctly reflect the last snarfed piece. -Skip [1] http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ the low level parts referenced in vmwarefs can be found under: lib/backdoor lib/guestApp (getdeviceinfo) toolbox/ (get/setguistate)
