IIRC, regardless of proper XFree86 video support, you still be able to match
whatever screen resolution and bit depth you are currently running in X. If
you are not running XFree86 3.3.6, you won't have the necessary performance
hooks that VMware wants, but it should still work.
I would venture to guess that, for whatever reason, Windows is still
referring to the wrong video driver. Check that first.
Networking should be active too.
Did you enable bridging or private networking when you install (as root)
VMware?
Also, what did you set in your config for this particular instance/session
of VMware regarding networking.
Bridging is preferable, assuming you have another available IP address on
your real network. Private networking is a fallback position for most users
because then you need to use ipchains or a proxy config in Linux to get to
the real network.
Matt
P.S. Sorry for the crappy formatting of the responses. I'm out of town and
using the web interface to M$ Exchange to keep up with my email. And there
is no way to tell it to add '>' to the source message.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Weaver
To: Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
Sent: 8/4/00 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [expert]RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.
"Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote:
>
> This is the URL for installing the client tools with VMware
>
>
http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/doc/quickstart_2_rpm_linux/install_t
ools
> .html
>
> I found it by navigating from the download link which has a link to
"Quick
> Installation notes. I will grant you that I don't believe there is
another
> way to get to this page except the way I noted. Basically, you end up
> mounting their floppy image as drive a:.
>
> Good luck,
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Weaver
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 8/4/00 1:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [expert]RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.
>
> Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) wrote:
> >
> > Read the instructions on vmware.com. They give explicit
instructions
> in the
> > installation guide on how to get the tools installed. They are in a
> > mountable floppy disk image that comes with VMware.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Seak, Teng-Fong
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: 8/4/00 12:25 AM
> > Subject: Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.
> >
> > Daniel Woods wrote:
> >
> > > > It's running quite well here at work, although I'm having quite
a
> > time
> > > [deleted]
> > > > the performance went down the crapper REAL fast.
> > >
> > > Did you install the VMWare toolbox tools ?
> > > You can download the toolbox from their site.
> > > These help to speed up performance and allow better settings.
> >
> > Nope, from Vmware 2.0, toolbox tools are included already in
the
> > emulator. Nothing to download from their site unless your guest OS
is
> > BSD.
> >
> > Seak T.F.
>
> I tell ya what....I've been over and over those instructions and I
just
> can't seem to make out how you're supposed to access those tools.
Maybe
> I'm missing something...I don't know. There isn't any .tar.gz file for
> me to untar and the only image I've found is called linux.flp. What
does
> one do with this?
>
> Mark
> --
> Mark Weaver
> IT Dept./Reapernet.com
> Destiny Image Publishers
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Matt,
Thanks...I manged to get the little raskel installed, but it doesn't
appear as though my machine is going to cooperate very much. The driver
is installed, but I'm still at a resolution of 640 X 480 and 16 colors.
It's ok and all. What I'm most concerned about it performance and being
able to access the network when I need to, and all that is happening for
me already.
--
Mark Weaver
IT Dept./Reapernet.com
Destiny Image Publishers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
