Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 14:36:39 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware core dumps when going full screen Message-ID: <p05111759b9006f6211ed@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020509112410.GA29090@gvr.gvr.org> References: <20020509112410.GA29090@gvr.gvr.org>
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At 1:24 PM +0200 5/9/02, Guido van Rooij wrote: >I am trying to get Vmware 2.0.4 running full sceen on my >Omnibook 500. The moment vmware tries to go full screen, >it dumps core and the X screen is left almost black. Sometimes I run into this problem, and sometimes I do not. In my case, I find that the trick is to have the virtual machine running at a lower resolution than the real screen. So, for instance, my XF86Config has the screen at a resolution of 1152x864. I startup vmware with a guest OS of Win2K. While that is still running inside a window (ie, it is *not* full-screen), I change the resolution of that guest OS to 1024x768. I can then "option-esc" out of the window, and click on the full-screen button. Win2K will take over the screen, and vmware2 will not core-dump. Of course, once Win2K is set to 1024x768, you just leave it there and you can go into full-screen mode the next time you start up vmware. You can not have vmware automatically start up in full-screen mode, because it will also dump when the virtual machine is in the basic "DOS resolution", as it is while the virtual OS is booting up or shutting down. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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