late follow up. I'm running v 3 build 4560, with converted v 2 image. seems to work fine, as far as I can judge -- apart from things I notice while typing this, see below (*)
did not (yet) try direct install of plan 9 in v 3. resolution 1680x1050 is standard supported, aux/vga -m vesa -p lists no depth 32 at all, only 8, 16 and 24. this is on a quite recent 20" imac. audio works per ac97 instructions in wiki page 'Installing in parallels desktop on Mac OS X' (*) minor problems: I'm typing this from a vncv session to unix within the parallels plan 9 on the mac. it works ok, but the mouse cursor does funny things. screen shot http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~belinfan/parpic01.png in the vnc-ed unix session I run rio as wm. when I move the fat arrow in the vnc window, while moving it a transparent square box (or rather: hole, since it is tranparent) of, dunno, 10x10 pixels appears in the mouse cursor, moreover, pieces of the mouse cursor get left behind. combined with the transparancy thing this means I can draw by moving mouse moving south-east and can erase by moving mouse north-west. also, probably unrelated to vncv, when I use lens outside the vncv window I also see the image of the mouse cursor in the lens window. don't recall seeing that in native plan 9. turns out I have an 'international english' keyboard where `/~ key is next to left shift key, and a plus-minus/paragraph(?) key is at the usual `/~ position. parallels seems not to know about this keyboard: when I press the plus-minus/paragraph(?) key I get the `/~. about the 'Installing in parallels desktop on Mac OS X' page: I was surprised to see that applying the suggested 'hget -o file URL' idiom to existing /sys/src/9/port/devaudio.c overwrites the first part of it by retreived file, but leaves the last part in place. turns out 1) ac97 port/devaudio.c is shorter than the original 2) hget -o opens existing file without truncate, on purpose. I guess in case of an existing (different) file, first get original out of the way before using: hget -o file URL Axel.