Don't get the driver from the vmware provided tools. Use the one from openindiana xorg.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Michael Kruger <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/08/2016 11:38 AM, Gordon Ross wrote: >> >> [ Was: Whoa! emacs broken? ... ] >> >> Out of curiosity, I tried temporarily removing the vmware xorg driver. >> That eliminates the "damage redraw" bug I described previously. >> Unfortunately, that leaves the vmware guest restricted to modes that >> can't cover the host screen, don't resize with the guest window, etc. >> >> But anyway, this would seem to narrow down the problem to somewhere in >> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/amd64/vmware_drv.so >> >> Next I guess I'll want instructions for building and debugging that. >> Any tips for that? >> >> Thanks, >> Gordon >> >> > Hi Gordon, > > I don't mean to highjack your thread, but am curious how you have managed to > load the vmware driver. > On a fresh install in VMware player, when I run the modinfo command, I only > see the vga driver loaded. > > 92 fffffffff7ccc000 4898 276 1 vgatext (VGA text driver) > > The vmware(7) man page suggests the vmware video adapter should be > auto-detected and automatically load the vmware driver. > This however does not seem to be the case. > > Did you have to create a custom xorg.conf or something? > > BTW...my past attempts at installing vmware tools for Solaris have been less > than successful as doing so usually results in a mouse which no longer > works. > Presumably the tools would create a new xorg.conf I would think. The times > where it didn't kill the mouse, I was still unable to seamlessly move the > mouse in and out of the virtual machine as can be done with Virtualbox. > > I'd like to use vmware player over virtualbox because it's apparent disk > performance is so much better. > What I mean is in only takes a few minutes to install OI in vmware player, > whereas on Virtualbox, it's tens of minutes. > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
