[ale] VMWare General Question

Benjamin Scherrey scherrey at gte.net
Thu Apr 8 03:06:46 EDT 1999


Did you download the windows extra programs (vmware-tools.exe) for
vmware? Copy them into your virtual windows session and run it. It will
install an improved display device that gives me 256 colors. Since that's
as high as my X goes right now I can't tell you if it does better or not.
Also, it transmits the windows display much faster (probably pixelizes
kinda like mpeg) as well. I'm running NT4 in mine so YMMV.

    Good luck & later,

        Ben Scherrey

root wrote:

> Anyways, the question comes when I load the other OS in VMWare which
> *ahem* happens to be Win98 *cringe*.   Since VMWare requires its own
> X-server, is there any ways to get "accelerated" graphics inside the
> VMWare screen?  (I'm only getting 16 colors.  It's quite annoying).
> What hardware would Windows recognize an X-server as?






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