How to: Setting VMWare resolution fullscreen as in Ubuntu!

[MTZeon]

I managed to have VMWare working with the same resolution that Ubuntu uses This works with every resolution set on Ubuntu, if it works on Ubuntu, it will work on VMWare Windows

- Open up VMWare, don't boot up Windows yet.
- Go to "View" and select "Autofit window" and "Autofit Guest".
- Close VMWare.
- Go to the terminal and do:
sudo gedit ~/vmware/preferences
- Now where it says:
pref.autoFitFullScreen = "fitHostToGuest"
change it to:
pref.autoFitFullScreen = "fitGuestToHost"

And thats it. Open VMWare, start your virtual machine, put it full screen. When you get to Windows, it will probably say that it can't set the resolution. On Windows, go to the monitor properties and you should be able to set the desired resolution

Enjoy!

[Inferno.]

I love you, it worked

[valermos]

Thanks for the tip... it works great!

The only difference for me was my preferences file was not at ~/vmware/preferences it was at ~/.vmware/preferences

Hope that helps anybody else.

[era86]

Wow.. This really helped me out. Thank you so much!

[noworry]

You are really great, it works superbly for me.

[Krusader3z]

Okay, this worked for the most part however, I was only able to go "Full Screen" at resolution 1024x768

Anything over that it it wouldn't go full screen.

I think I see what the problem is. My resolution in Feisty is 1440x900 and I do not see that resolution when I adjust the resolution on my virtual machine(Vista)

Anyone have any suggestions? Also, How do I get those borders i've heard about so I can spin my beryl cube?

Much thanks,
Mike

[NoVista]

This worked great.
Started up the virtual machine and presto !

[Mariano Oliveto]

Krusader3z: I answered you in your post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...are+resolution

[fenixphire07]

Hey thanks to valermos..i got freaked out when my sudo gedit ~/vmware/preferences came up wit a blank page...

Totally worked for me

[fenixphire07]

Hi, I seem to having some trouble still. If anyone can help would much appreciate it. I changed the preferences accordingly but when i tried to switch to full screen an error occurs. I cant find the file indicated in the msg either.

Anyone who can help pls do. I have attached the msg shown as well.

btw, i'm running Ubuntu as host and Windows XP as client on my laptop computer. 128 Graphics Card Compaq Presario C300 Widescreen.

Thanks.

Edit: I tried changing my xorg.conf file and with the word guest in the said sub section and oops GUI dnt load...lucky i made a back up of the file. Worked out that glich via CLI and so still locking for help.