From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 7 21:31:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CC6E16A403 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 21:31:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahnke@sonatabio.com) Received: from smtp.wizwire.com (smtp.wizwire.com [209.218.100.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7B813C483 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 21:31:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahnke@sonatabio.com) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (207-104-43-212.starstream.net [207.104.43.212]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.wizwire.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l47LUk9C015478; Mon, 7 May 2007 14:30:46 -0700 From: Frank Jahnke To: Gore Jarold In-Reply-To: <530315.52022.qm@web63015.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <530315.52022.qm@web63015.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Sonata Biosciences, Inc. Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 14:27:32 -0700 Message-Id: <1178573252.938.130.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-WizWire-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-WizWire-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: jahnke@sonatabio.com Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware3 on FreeBSD 6.2 - minor (?) svga problem ... more #2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jahnke@sonatabio.com List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 21:31:54 -0000 On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 13:49 -0700, Gore Jarold wrote: > Now, your point about resolutions is well taken - but > does that matter if I am running in a window only ? I > have no desire to run vmware full-screen. Right now I > run it in a 960x600 window. I think clarifying some terms would be helpful. Do you mean that you set the resolution of VMware device driver to give you a 960x600 on your host computer, or that you are issuing the vmware command from a 960x600 window? If the latter, that does not matter. If the former, then you have to be really careful about the resolutions that vmware can take. It has been a long time since I looked at this, but I think you should try 1024x768 or 1280x1024. The next resolution down is 800x600, I think. If you chose something else, it will not work (namely, the driver will not load). Also, I think the boot screens use a resolution of only 640x480 so that it works on pretty much everything. Are you able to boot the VM at all? > > Do you still think I need to degrade my X screen to > 1280x1024 (or something) if I am only running vmware > in a window ? No, I am talking about the resolution of the vmware window you are running. For example, I run two monitors at 1280x960 in Xinerama, and use a VMware resolution of 1024x768 (or whatever). Frank