From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 25 04:37:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E873016A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:37:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 812A743D45 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:37:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from localhost (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9705769A40 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:37:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:37:53 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050224233753.0ad97699.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0rc (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:37:56 -0000 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