FreeBSD inside VMWare and x.org

[Bill Moran]

I'd like to use FreeBSD inside VMWare on my desktop. I've used VMWare
for testing things out in FreeBSD quite a few times with considerable
success, but I've never before installed x.org, and that's where I'm
getting hung up. I'm trying to use FreeBSD 5.3, with the latest xorg
from ports (just updated today).

I can't seem to get X to start with any decent screen realestate. If
I use the "vmware" driver, I'm stuck with 640x480. I experimented some
and tried the "vesa" driver, which worked nicely except the screen is
huge (I'm guessing 3000x3000 or so) and since most of it is off the
monitor, it's unusable.

I've tried installaing the vmware-tools4 package, and I've tried it
without the package. It doesn't seem to make much difference either
way.

Any suggestions or pointers on how to get a usable system inside
VMWare?

--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
[url]http://www.potentialtech.com[/url]

[pete wright]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:37:53 -0500, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote:

>
>
> I can't seem to get X to start with any decent screen realestate. If
> I use the "vmware" driver, I'm stuck with 640x480. I experimented some
> and tried the "vesa" driver, which worked nicely except the screen is
> huge (I'm guessing 3000x3000 or so) and since most of it is off the
> monitor, it's unusable.
>

it sounds like these issues are related to your X.org config file.
you may want to check out the "Subsection Display" settings in
/etc/X11/XF86Config (or maybe Xorg.config for xorg don't remember at
the moment). I've never tried running X in a vmware machine, but if
you are able to get the binary up and running I assume you should be
able to change these config options. if this does not work i'd
suggest posting the interesting portions of /var/log/XFree86.0.log to
the list.

-pete

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Pete Wright
[url]www.nycbug.org[/url]
NYC's *BSD User Group

[Jason Henson]

On 02/24/05 23:37:53, Bill Moran wrote:

>
> I'd like to use FreeBSD inside VMWare on my desktop. I've used
> VMWare
> for testing things out in FreeBSD quite a few times with considerable
> success, but I've never before installed x.org, and that's where I'm
> getting hung up. I'm trying to use FreeBSD 5.3, with the latest xorg
> from ports (just updated today).
>
> I can't seem to get X to start with any decent screen realestate. If
> I use the "vmware" driver, I'm stuck with 640x480. I experimented
> some
> and tried the "vesa" driver, which worked nicely except the screen is
> huge (I'm guessing 3000x3000 or so) and since most of it is off the
> monitor, it's unusable.
>
> I've tried installaing the vmware-tools4 package, and I've tried it
> without the package. It doesn't seem to make much difference either
> way.
>
> Any suggestions or pointers on how to get a usable system inside
> VMWare?
>

Change you /etc/X11/xorg.conf to match the relevant parts of this


Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "saphfire"
Monitor "kds_1600x1200@75"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

[Bill Moran]

Jason Henson <jason@ec.rr.com> wrote:

> On 02/24/05 23:37:53, Bill Moran wrote:

> >
> > I'd like to use FreeBSD inside VMWare on my desktop. I've used
> > VMWare
> > for testing things out in FreeBSD quite a few times with considerable
> > success, but I've never before installed x.org, and that's where I'm
> > getting hung up. I'm trying to use FreeBSD 5.3, with the latest xorg
> > from ports (just updated today).
> >
> > I can't seem to get X to start with any decent screen realestate. If
> > I use the "vmware" driver, I'm stuck with 640x480. I experimented
> > some
> > and tried the "vesa" driver, which worked nicely except the screen is
> > huge (I'm guessing 3000x3000 or so) and since most of it is off the
> > monitor, it's unusable.
> >
> > I've tried installaing the vmware-tools4 package, and I've tried it
> > without the package. It doesn't seem to make much difference either
> > way.
> >
> > Any suggestions or pointers on how to get a usable system inside
> > VMWare?
> >

>
> Change you /etc/X11/xorg.conf to match the relevant parts of this
>
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen 1"
> Device "saphfire"
> Monitor "kds_1600x1200@75"
> DefaultDepth 24
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> EndSection

AHA!

That did it very nicely. I forgot to put in Modes.

Thank you very much ... made my day! For the archives ... I'm using
the vesa driver ... The vmware driver doesn't seem capable of this.
Runs at 1280x1024 very nicely both in a window, and in fullscreen.

--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
[url]http://www.potentialtech.com[/url]