When booting plan9 in vmware the graphics seem to work fine up to 1024x768x8, but higher resolutions cause a panic trying to
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panic: kernel fault: bad address pc=0xf01eb43e addr=0xe03c0000 panic: kernel fault: bad address pc=0xf01eb43e addr=0xe03c0000
/dev/vgactl says 0xe0000000 has 0x3c0000 mapped. Enough for 1024x768x4 bytes but not enoug hfor 1280x1024x4 bytes. I patched vgavmware.c line 179 to allocate 2*vmrd(vm, Rfbsize) instead of vmrd(vm, Rfbsize) and now I'm able to go into 1280x1024x8 mode. This is obviously just a hack, I don't know what a real solution would be (is it possible that the hardware register returns a different size after changing the mode?) Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
