[CentOS] vmware tools in CentOS5 guest?

Sat May 19 00:54:59 UTC 2007
Paul Norton <paul at neoverve.com>

Ken Key wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Does anyone have vmware-tools from the recent server 1.03 release 
>> running in a CentOS5 guest VM?  vmware-config-tools.pl goes through 
>> the motions except for building the vmhgfs module (which it says is 
>> only needed for mapping the host file system) but then X won't start 
>> up with the new configuration.
>>
> 
> Yup, had the same problem.  The vmware-config-tools.pl fails to write
> a Monitor section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  I add the following to all
> of mine:
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier      "vmware"
>     VendorName      "VMware, Inc"
>     HorizSync 1-10000
>     VertRefresh 1-10000
> EndSection
> 
> I got the above values from doing an X -configure in the VM. 
> Unfortunately, *that* hangs the display and requires a restart.
> It also generates a massive number of unnecessary ModeLines.
> Just adding the above section to my VMs was my quickest solution.
> 
> Hope this helps,

Either of you notice poor performance?  My mouse is jumpy and freezes, 
especially when I try to resize a terminal window.  The whole thing 
feels slugish.  This is with vmware workstation 6 and either Lunar Linux 
or Ubuntu as a host.  I'm sure other distros as hosts.

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Paul Norton
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