Thanks for the help, but I haven't solved it yet. I
don't know if I got to understand it, let me try to
explain my vision:

-desktop: My machine where I am running the VNC
client. Is a Fedora Core 3 machine.
-host: The remote machine that has the VNC server and
the VMWare Workstation software installed. Is a Fedora
Core 3 machine.
-Guest: Is the Windows XP running over VMWare on the
host machine.

The think is that I don't have physical access to the
host machine.

Let me go step by step:

> My advice was to start VMWare on the console of the
> host, not inside a 
> VNC-session. 

I guess that I have to do that using ssh. So I do:
[desktop#] ssh host

And once having a shell in host, I do:
[host#] vmware

Well the thing is that I have XForwarding enabled so
If I do this the VMWare appears in my screen (in
desktop), but I can not use fullscreen mode either. So
is there anyway from ssh to make the VMWare appear in
the local X server? I tried the following but I got an
error:

[host#] vmware --display=localhost:0.0
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:0.0

Another thing is that when I open an ssh session I
have $DISPLAY=localhost:10.0, I think this is for the
XForwarding, I am not sure if this affects or not to
the problem.

Ok the second step is, if I get to remotely run vmware
on the local display, make the local display available
through VNC.

Then use
> http://www.realvnc.com/v4/x0.html to gain access
> using vnc.

The webpage you told me says that there are several
ways to make the local X server available trhough VNC:

1. If the local X server is XFree86 version 4, they
explain how to do it, I have the Xorg version 6.8 X
server in the host machine, I think is quite close to
the XFree86, so I don't know If what they explain
would apply in my case.

2. Use of x0vncserver, this is less efficient but you
don't have to modify anything, this x0vncserver can
make any X server available through VNC. So I decided
to try for this one, In the ssh session I had opened
with the host machine I try:

[host]# x0vncserver -display localhost:0.0
x0vncserver: unable to open display "localhost:0.0"

And to try something else, I tried:

[host]# x0vncserver -display=localhost:10.0

Mon Feb 21 12:06:46 2005
 main:        XTest extension not present
 main:        unable to inject events or display while
server is grabbed
X Error of failed request:  BadDrawable (invalid
Pixmap or Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  73 (X_GetImage)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x3f
  Serial number of failed request:  9
  Current serial number in output stream:  9

But as you can see I got an error as well.

So I am a little bit losed ... but am I in the right
direction or I completely misunderstood everything ?


Thanks !
  

--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dani Camps wrote:
> 
> >>Try if you get the VNC module working in the
> >>X-server at your console.
> >>Then, you can use the DGA extantion to the
> X-server
> >>at your console
> >>and still work remote.
> > 
> > 
> > What do you mean with this ? using my local X
> server
> > instead of the remote with VNC ? How to do this ?
> > 
> 
> I might have mixed some stuff and we both got lost
> somewhere. Let me show some 
> possible setups but first some terms:
> 
> desktop: the machine at your desk.
> host: a (remote) machine running VMWare.
> guest: a machine running inside VMWare.
> 
> My view to your situation:
> Your host is linux based, it runs `vncserver` (or an
> other `Xvnc` variant) in 
> which you run VMWare. You prefer the VMWare session
> full-screen inside the 
> VNC-session. This fullscreen (VMWare inside Xvnc) is
> not possible since Xvnc has 
> no DGA extentions.
> 
> 
> My advice was to start VMWare on the console of the
> host, not inside a 
> VNC-session. Then use
> http://www.realvnc.com/v4/x0.html to gain access
> using vnc.
> 
> Alternative routes are:
> - run vnc-server inside the guest and view that on
> your desktop. The 
> disadvantage is that you need to open a vnc-session
> to the host to access the 
> power-buttons of the guest.
> 
> - use VMWare GSX and its VMWare-virtual-console
> in-stead-of using vnc to 
> vmware-workstation. Specially for commercial,
> server-based setups this would be 
> my advice.
> 
> 
> 
> CBee
> 



                
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