Wide Screen Virtual Machine in VMware

[campioni]

sure would have been useful to know this

[csharpy]

Ouch, dead end thread. I just ran into this issue as well. Glad someone resolved it, gives me hope anyway

[dpj23]

real quick here are you using player or workstation???

player may not allow you to adjust screen resolution, However, you can make these adjustments in workstation in a number of different ways...

[csharpy]

Neither, I'm using server

[csharpy]

I finally got around to figuring this out. What I wanted to do was run my guest Windows XP in wide-screen (1280x800) resolution to match that of my Ubuntu host. First I installed the VMWare Tools on the guest.

VMWare guest install instructions:
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/d...s_windows.html

Then I followed Petr's instructions, found on the VMWare forums, for modifying the guest registry for the new resolution.

Guest registry editing instructions:
http://communities.vmware.com/message/77209#77209

After rebooting the guest OS, I was then able to select the new resolution from the windows display properties.

Good luck!

VMWare Server 1.0.4
Host: Ubuntu 7.10
Guest: Windows XP Professional SP2