Problem using VNC with VMWare

[Corné Beerse]

Rich Schaaf wrote:

> I'm having trouble using VNC to remotely control a VMWare session.
> 
> When the screen changes on the VMWare guest machine, those screen
> repaints are not reflected across the VNC connection. Instead, I need
> to move the mouse around the area of the screen occupied by the VMWare
> display in order to force the VNC viewer to refresh the display.
> Another suboptimal workaround is that I can tell the VNC Viewer to
> "Refresh screen" in order to force the VNC viewer to repaint the
> entire screen of the VMWare guest machine.
> 
> I'm using default settings for VNC and the versions of VNC / VMWare
> that I am running are as follows:
> 
> VNC Viewer machine:
>    Windows XP SP1
>    VNC Viewer 4.0
> 
> VNC Server machine (also the VMWare host operating system):
>    Windows XP SP1
>    VNC Server 3.3.6
>    VMWare Workstation 4.5.2
> 
> VMWare Guest operating system
>    Windows XP SP1
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this problem and know how to fix it?


My workaround would be to install vnc in the vmware-guest too and use that.
If this is a professional situation (you are willing to spend some money) then 
vmware-gsx is an option, it provides the vmware-console: kind of like a 
vnc-session to the guest but with access to all virtual harware too.

CBee