[TriLUG] Vmware and Xserver

[Vestal, Roy L.]

Oops! Typo:
"i.e. 0:1 is overlayed onto 0:1." was supposed to be i.e. "0:1 is overlayed
onto 0:0"

-----Original Message-----
From: Vestal, Roy L. [mailto:rvestal at rti.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:17 PM
To: 'trilug at trilug.org'
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Vmware and Xserver


VMWare tries to create a "second" local display, and overlay's it ontop of
your current desktop, i.e. 0:1 is overlayed onto 0:1. You can press
CTRL+ALT+F8 for example to bring the VMWare session into "full screen" but
it's acutally display 0:1.

Hope this helps some. I'm not sure how to get it to work otherwise.

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Johnson [mailto:justin at eCotton.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 2:30 PM
To: TRILUG (E-mail)
Subject: [TriLUG] Vmware and Xserver
 basically blows.

So I set a Windoze X Server,( currently testing with X-Win32). Using XDMCP
sessions I can get connected and have a linux desktop running in the XWin
window, however when I try and run VMWare I get an error " could not open
/dev/vmmon: No such device. Please make sure kernel module vmmon is loaded".
I'm assuming this has something to do with the display, but alas I am but a
child in the world of linux.

Any ideas on how to fix this, if possible?