[content-discuss] [docs-discuss] Preliminary Draft for VMware Article Update

[Eric Lowe]

A follow-up to yesterday:

> If you simply install the tools as-is, you won't pick up the Xorg drivers from the tools package
> because the Xorg version doesn't match the one the driver was built for. This is probably just fine,
> since I am guessing the "vmware" driver in Nevada is more likely to be up to date than the one
> shipped in the tools

This is expected. Some future release of the tools will have version checking for the X drivers.
The current tools don't have a 1.3 driver so the Nevada provided one is used which works fine.

> As for the question the tools configuration asks about configuring Xorg, if you say "yes" you
> are screwed because the tools didn't install the "vmware" driver

This problem was fixed in the version of tools shipped with ESX 3.0.2 and Workstation 6.0.1.
I upgraded my version of Workstation from 6.0 to 6.0.1 and confirmed now the selection of
resolution works correctly with the Nevada-provided server.

I am trying to get OpenSolaris (experimental) and OpenSolaris 64-bit (experimental) added to
the Workstation UI as guest choices in the next release. In the mean time, you can use
Solaris 10 as the guest choice (as you documented) with no loss of functionality.

- Eric






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