[ale] VMWare General Question

Nick Lucent nlucent at mindspring.com
Thu Apr 8 08:14:26 EDT 1999


On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, root wrote:

theyre website has windows drivers that recognise theyre ?emulated video?,
that allow you to run at a higher resolution/more colors.

Nick

> Okay, Okay--
> 
> I realize I'm probably going to get barked at on this one, but I feel
> it's a linux-related question. :)
> I'm using VMWare for linux, which by the way is truly amazing, if you
> havent seen it yet.
> 
> 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?
> 
> If you feel I need to be lambasted, please do so in a polite way. :)
> 
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