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From: Lucio De Re lucio@pro...
Subject: [9fans] VMWare
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:56:20 GMT

On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 07:10:55AM -0700, James A. Robinson wrote:
> 
> I don't remember a VNC port, but I did see this post from David Bulkow
> about getting VNC to work with Plan 9.  I don't know if he got the
> network working.
> 
I'm trying to reduce my environment to a single workstation with access
to an unreasonable number of distinct platforms (NetBSD, Linux, Win'95,
Win2K and Plan 9).  I thought VNC would provide the neatest (if not
the snazziest) solution.

Another option may be to port Cytrix to Plan 9 and the Unix platforms,
but that's hardly practical.

VMWare is great if you're short of servers, you can run everything on
one box, but then the performance suffers.  I have lots of redundant
(read old) equipment, but can only cope with one keyboard and screen
at the time (the mouse already makes it more difficult :-).

++L