On Mon Sep 22, 2003 at 08:21:34AM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: > >>>I installed 9.2RC2 on VMware. I can startx, but when I exit from > >>>the Xwindows. My console is all warped. I get four tiny screens. > >>>The two on the top is identical. Two at the bottom, I can't see > >>>anything, but grided color lines. I need to reboot machine to get > >>>the normal text again. Does anyone know a fix for this? > >> > >>I don't meant to sound flippent, but the best way to handle this > >>problem is to throw VMware out the window, ( at least where this > >>application is concerned ) and install Mandrake on it's own > >>partition and run it natively. I really don't see the sense if > >>running Mandrake in this manner when the support to run it natively > >>exists. > > > > > >No... I'd actually like to see this fixed as well (I get the same > >behaviour here). > > > >Trust me, having this in vmware is very very convenient. While I'm > >running 9.2/cooker/whatever as my primary desktop, I'm also running > >everything from Mandrake 8.2-cooker in vmware. It's invaluable for > >testing stuff. With vmware, I have about 2 dozen operating > >systems/Linux variants/versions on this machine with only one host > >OS. For something like that, vmware is invaluable. > > Hi Vincent, > > Actually I hadn't thought of it that way and I see your point.
For me, vmware is invaluable. The cost would be far too high for me to have a machine that multi-boots all these distros for testing (in terms of time: too many reboots). Cost is also too high to have one machine per supported distrib: Electricity, hardware, etc. Having all of this in vmware is cheap on both accounts... no physical hardware, no time for reboots (suspending in vmware is *awesome*). vmware is probably the one tool that I've bought for Linux that gave me 1000% ROI within a month of using it. =) -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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