Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:37:53 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org Message-ID: <20050224233753.0ad97699.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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I'd like to use FreeBSD inside VMWare on my desktop. I've used VMWare for testing things out in FreeBSD quite a few times with considerable success, but I've never before installed x.org, and that's where I'm getting hung up. I'm trying to use FreeBSD 5.3, with the latest xorg from ports (just updated today). I can't seem to get X to start with any decent screen realestate. If I use the "vmware" driver, I'm stuck with 640x480. I experimented some and tried the "vesa" driver, which worked nicely except the screen is huge (I'm guessing 3000x3000 or so) and since most of it is off the monitor, it's unusable. I've tried installaing the vmware-tools4 package, and I've tried it without the package. It doesn't seem to make much difference either way. Any suggestions or pointers on how to get a usable system inside VMWare? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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