vmware on fedora 7

[Jason Hayes]

Josh:

I'm not sure about the screen resolution. My screen settings have just always 
cooperated, so I haven't had to fiddle with them.

I have had issues with getting my network connections to work in the past 
though (both wired and wireless).

I'm real busy with work projects right now, so I don't have a lot of time to 
go into details. However, the times that I did have trouble, I found out that 
it had to do with setting the vmnet1 and vmnet8 protocols to "static" instead 
of "none", or "dhcp".

I blogged about my Vmware issues - see http://www.jasonhayes.org/?p=1898 and 
http://www.jasonhayes.org/?p=2245 (I have links in these posts to others who 
had dealt with networking issues as well).

Since you're using fedora 7, your networking shouldn't be that much different 
(I think) than it would be on my Mandriva system. (Mandriva was originally 
based on Red Hat.)

HTH - if not try Googling around about the static IP thing to see if you can 
dig up anything else.

Jason Hayes


On Wednesday 22 August 2007 9:19:06 am 'josh coffman' wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   I've got a couple issues that I'm working on with vmware server on fedora
> 7. First, I'm not tied to server if using the player will solve things.
>
>   Note: guest OS is WinXP; SELinux is off.
>
>   First problem is the networking. My host machine is on wireless. I seem
> to have trouble setting vmware and the guest OS to use wlan0. It seem to
> get the settings right, but the guest OS won't get a connection. I can set
> it to use a local NAT and get internet connection, but then I can't connect
> to the guest Os remotely. ..which leads to the second problem...
>
>   Another problem is running full screen. I can run fullscreen if the guest
> is set to a much smaller resolution. If I set the winXP to a normal Res
> like 1280 or 1440, then I get some error with X not supporting the vid mode
> when I switch to fullsreen in the vmware server console. Also, the machine
> tab and status bar are always present.. thought there was a way to hide
> those.
>
>   I'm trying to set up a dev environment for my windows work and still have
> linux as my host OS. Running fullscreen is important to me. If I can get
> the networking right, I think I could just Remote Desktop to the guest OS
> and work just fine.
>
>   My preferred solution is to get the guest OS to use wlan0 correctly and
> get an IP on my lan. Then I could remote desktop WinXP and work that way.
>
>   My secondary choice is to get fullscreen working on the vmware console so
> that I'm running full resolution.
>
>   My last choice is to put XP back on the desktop and dual boot it. I have
> to have a dev environment.
>
>   So, how do I set up vmware to use wlan0 for guest OS networking? How can
> I get vmware to run fullscreen with the guest OS resolution at the same
> level as the host?
>
> -j
>
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