gEDA-dev: Virtual machine for installing WebPACK 9

[Joshua Boyd]

On Apr 28, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Ales Hvezda wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
>> ... Part of the
>> problem I'm having is that the player images I find have the
>> video size of 800x600. The WebPack installer buttons fall off
>> the screen and I can't click them! I redirect the display to my
>> main host, and the installer crashes:-(
>>
>
> Why not change video resolution?  Usually you need to install the  
> vmware
> tools to do this beyond 800x600.  I'm sure if the vmware tools are
> publicly available or if they are only part of VMWare workstation.
> Ah, if you are using player images off of the net, then most likely
> these do not have the vwmare tools installed.

VMware tools should be publicly available and is included with VMWare  
server as well.  I've stopped using VMWare player.

I thought the display for new VMs defaulted to a max 1024x768 without  
VMWare tools, although the free server limits you to 1024x768 even if  
you install the tools.

Has anyone else read the notes on Linux 2.6.21?  Am I correct in  
thinking that A) effectively VMWare has opensourced the VMWare tools  
interface, B) linux's KVM and VMWare will share the same interface,  
and C) Linux 2.6.21 just included the kernel part of the VMWare tools  
into itself?