Here’s a quick tip that I kicked myself when I eventually figured out – and then felt subsequently quite thick. After installing Fedora Core 7 within a VMWare host on Windows, the screen resolution couldn’t go above 800x600. I worked with that for a while using an X windows package to interact with FC7 to get around the low resolution. Today I found out that if you change the display monitor type to be an LCD panel of a particular resolution, lo and behold you can then choose a whole bunch of screen resolutions. The performance of the latest VMWare tools and Fedora Core 7 combination is great. Its now as good as a Windows guest running VMware tools.
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Well this solved my 800x600 problems, cheers!
I had the same problems, but found that merely changing the monitor to 1400x1050 (my laptop resolution) did not do the trick. What worked for me was editing my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to include the line:
Section "Screen"
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1400x1050"
EndSubSection
EndSection
worked (I think you get the idea)
I also found that installing VMWare tools on your client OS will help increase the resolution capabilities of the virtual display.
Anyway...
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