Distorted graphics after running vmware

linuxmandrake · 10-29-2005, 10:27 AM

I'm running gnome with sarge 3.1. Ever since the system crash I had today I have had this weird problem. Where everytime |I start a virtual machine it distorts grpahics on the desktop. It also affects vlc as well. But everything is fine when I dont run vmware. This isn't always the case though occisionly I can run it without problems.

Never mind it's fixed now. Running the virtual machine in full screen as soon as it's powered on seems to have fixed it. U can do this via the vm settings.

kuplo · 10-30-2005, 08:11 PM

As a side note, how do you like Vmware? Right now Im just using my old laptop hooked up with a belkin device that allows me to use the one mouse and keyboard to control both my Linux box (so it finally gets to stay running for my home webserver) and I can switch over to my laptop with two clicks of keys on my keyboard. I was thinking about getting VMWare, have you found any programs that it wont run yet? Whats the good, and the bad?

nukeu666 · 10-30-2005, 11:35 PM

the vmware manual says you shouldnt choose graphical login at boot

vmware is great for runnign any apps....tho u should have lots of ram for it and processing power if ur giong to do real work on it
dont try to run anything graphical in it....even screensavers

linuxmandrake · 10-31-2005, 05:00 AM

Running windows on vmware is actually very stable. I have been running it for months and it hasn't crashed on me so far. It even emulates USB controller. It's fast on my athlon 64bit 3 gig with a gig of ram. Though I think it's network infrastrcture stinks cos it's quite slow. Althrough it shows it's running at 1gig per second I have been told it actually works out to be 10mbs.

It has a shared folders option which allows easy tranfer of files between vm and host. It was easy to install as well.