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VMWare monitor resolution issue...

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homercles337

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Im running Ubuntu through VMWare (7.1.4) and would like to set a custom resolution for the VM in the window. My main monitor is 1920x1200, so i would like to run this VM at 1680x1050 or something. I have changed the vmx to reflect this, but it will only use that resolution when in full screen. I want it to show 1680x1050 inside a window. Currently when windowed it looks like 1024x768 or something. Any suggestions on this? Its rather maddening since i do not want to run this vm in full screen.
 
If you have VMware tools installed can't you just drag the window to resize it and have the guest match?
 
Nothinman said:
If you have VMware tools installed can't you just drag the window to resize it and have the guest match?
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Im not sure that i have VMware tools installed. I was able to force the resolution under preferences -> monitor in the vm, but i like this idea of dragging window and having guest resize. Thanks.
 
homercles337 said:
Im not sure that i have VMware tools installed. I was able to force the resolution under preferences -> monitor in the vm, but i like this idea of dragging window and having guest resize. Thanks.
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That's one of the first things you should do because it comes with their drivers, one of which is a display driver.
 
Also, make sure that you have memory set for the video card on the VM. If it's too low, performance can suck at the higher resolutions.
 
yup 64mb - i find 1920x1200 is a good thing. going to 2560x1600 is too much for the svga driver and sucks. ESX 5 should help this out a bit and there are some VDI solutions for higher res. Hyper-V with remoteFX looks really promising too!

ram to 32 or 64mb then 1920x1200 max is my best luck for admin servers over RDP
 
Emulex said:
yup 64mb - i find 1920x1200 is a good thing. going to 2560x1600 is too much for the svga driver and sucks. ESX 5 should help this out a bit and there are some VDI solutions for higher res. Hyper-V with remoteFX looks really promising too!

ram to 32 or 64mb then 1920x1200 max is my best luck for admin servers over RDP
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Considering that he said VMware 7.1.4, I gathered he meant Workstation which has nothing to do with ESX or really even HyperV.
 
dougp said:
I thought Workstation VMs also had a video RAM setting, no?
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I see settings for number of monitors, max resolution of any one of them and whether or not to do 3D acceleration but no direct setting for video memory. But I'm sure there's some magic formula that takes those settings and picks an appropriate amount.
 
It seems like you guys know quite a bit about VMs. So, is there a good way to share filespace between my VM and my physical machine (win7 x64 Enterprise). I am constantly toggling back and forth.
 
homercles337 said:
It seems like you guys know quite a bit about VMs. So, is there a good way to share filespace between my VM and my physical machine (win7 x64 Enterprise). I am constantly toggling back and forth.
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Set up a path on the physical machine as a shared folder on the VM.

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gsaldivar said:
Set up a path on the physical machine as a shared folder on the VM.

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I've had better luck with standard Samba. The VMware Shared Folders seem better up front, but for some reason they seem to perform worse than just going over the virtual network.
 
Thanks guys. This new job forces me back into the realm of doing everything myself, rather than just sending an email to help@ with a request. IT at my old place was 3x the entire size of my current group.
 
you can run esx inside vmware workstation : two of them, then have each divvy up the disk space and export it as ISCSI/NFS/SMB - the first two which can be used as vmfs for the vmhost - by cross exporting the store from each esx instance you can create a small cluster on your laptop 🙂 nerd out for sure.
 
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