On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 08:56:15PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Alex Carver <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > --- On Thu, 2/19/09, Lee Bengston wrote: >> > >> > >> >> >> >> Sounds interesting, but how would one adjust the screen >> >> resolution so >> >> that the VM would be the right size for the monitor that is >> >> being >> >> used? I assume there would still be a way to get to a >> >> command line to >> >> run the VMware tools script - not exactly a newbie friendly >> >> procedure, >> >> but that's the only way I have been able to permanently >> >> adjust the >> >> screen size. >> > >> > When I tried it with the latest VMWare player, Xastir filled whatever >> > screen I resized the VM container to be. >> >> It's resizing the VM container that I was asking about. Even with >> VMWare tools installed, when I played the VM, I had to run the VMware >> tools config script to change the Linux screen resolution. I was also >> able to change it in the window manager, but doing it that way only >> lasted until the next re-start of the VM. Maybe there is another easy >> way to resize the VM container that I have been missing. > > The latest VMware tools and vmware player behave as Alex described, resizing > the guest with the window. Older versions of the tools didn't do this well. > > Can't explain why you're still seeing that behavior if you're using new > versions > of both.
I saw that behavior last July after the Hardy VM was completed - at that time I thought I had downloaded the latest player. I'm sure there is a newer version now, so I'll give it a shot. Thanks, Lee _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
