Yeah, I've done SL4 on VMware (with a linux host though) and you need to
install vmware-tools for it to work (but perhaps you need a newer versino
of vmware?, I have VMwareWorkstation-5.0.0-13124).

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Luke Scharf wrote:

> Eric Le Goff wrote:
>
> >I might off topic here, but I desesperatly try to install a vmware
> >Scientific Linux 4.1 guest on vmware (host is windows xp) .
> >Everything works fine except screen resolution. A better place to ask
> >might have been xorg team , because the issue I have is related to
> >screen resolution : It cannot be higher than 800x600 which is really
> >disappointing as my Thinkpad T40 laptop windows host (with ATI Radeon
> >card)  can display 1280x1024.
> >With vmware I think you have to use a "vmware driver" but each time I edit
> >/etc/X11/xorg.conf with resolution higher than 800x600 (depth is 24)
> >the next X session displays a messed up screen
> >Any idea ?
> >
> >
> >
> Have you installed the vmware-tools package on the guest-SL4 yet?
> That's how the VMWare folks have packaged up the vmware driver.
>
> If yes, then you'll may have to edit the section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> that looks like this:
>
>     Section "Device"
>             Identifier  "Videocard0"
>             Driver      "nv"
>             VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>             BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
>     EndSection
>
> to use the vmware driver (replace "nv" with another string (probably
> "vmware")), before changing the resolution.
>
> However, it's been a long time since I've used Linux as a guest-os in
> VMWare - my preferred desktop is Linux, so I occasionally need to run
> Windows as the guest OS.  I don't remember the exact name of the vmware
> video driver.  It's also likely that the vmware-tools install script
> will attempt to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for you.
>
> I hope these vague hints are helpful!
>
> -Luke
>

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