[wellylug] WINXP/VMWare and RH 8

[Glen Ogilvie]

>From the sounds of things, you are running RH8 inside of vmware.. You will 
need to configure the Xserver inside RH8 to see the hardware that vmware 
emulates.  RH8 will not be able to detect the GEForce4 card you have, because 
it is effectivly hidden behind VMware's hardware abstraction layer.


You will need to install vmware tools within linux.  From memory, the vmware 
toolbox includes a script the configure X appropriatly.

The usual steps to install VMware tools are..

1. Start RH8 running inside of VMware.
2. from the vmware application, choose Settings, VMware Tools Install 
3. in RH8, as root, mount the CDrom ( mount /mnt/cdrom )
4. copy the tar file from the cdrom to your home folder (cp /mnt/cdrom/*.tar 
~)
5. untar it (tar -zxvf nameoftar.tar.gz)
6. cd vmwaretoolsdir
7. ./install.pl
8. umount /mnt/cdrom

Hope that helps, I've done this before, so email me if you get stuck.

Cheers
Glen

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:19, "teejay1203 wrote:
> One of my flatmates is running Win XP, VMWare and RH8. Unfortunately
> when he starts VMWare on XP, and chooses Linux, he gets dumped into
> the default terminal mode (tty1).
>
> When I tried to use Xconfigurator, it wouldn't automatically detect
> the GEForce4 card (64M RAM) and the Phillips monitor, and as such
> looped around and around.
>
> My flatmate reckons all he needs to do is reinstall Linux via VMWare
> but there must be some other workaround (or is there?).
>
> Apart from suggesting he creates a new partition and installs a dual
> boot or reloading Linux from scratch, is there anything anyone can
> recommend?
>
>
>
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