VMWare problems when running VNC

[Dani Camps]

> Try if you get the VNC module working in the
> X-server at your console.
> Then, you can use the DGA extantion to the X-server
> at your console
> and still work remote.

What do you mean with this ? using my local X server
instead of the remote with VNC ? How to do this ?

Thanks !


--- Corni Beerse <cbeerse "at" gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 06:05:48 -0800 (PST), Dani Camps
> <danicamps81 "at" yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I am accessing a Fedora Core 3 machine through VNC
> > 4.0-8, and I want to run VMware in the remote
> machine,
> > in VMware I have a Virtual Machine with Windows XP
> > installed.
> > 
> > But when I start VMware through VNC I got two
> warnings
> > that I don't get when running VMware physically.
> > 
> > 1-I get: XFree86DGA extension not present. Either
> your
> > Xserver is built without this extension, or it is
> not
> > configured to use it.
> > 
> > Resulting to this I can not run the full screen
> mode
> > in VMware when accessing through VNC.
> 
> Afaik, the dga-extention is not supported by Xvnc
> and it is used
> (needed) by VMWare to go full-screen. (do not expect
> any extention to
> the X11 standard to be supported by Xvnc, most need
> hardware not
> available for Xvnc).
> 
> Try if you get the VNC module working in the
> X-server at your console.
> Then, you can use the DGA extantion to the X-server
> at your console
> and still work remote.
> 
> An other (better?) alternative is to move from
> VMWareWorkstation to
> VMWare GSX. That has a remote-console option which I
> think provides
> what you like.
> 
> > 
> > 2-I also get this warning about the keyboard: The
> X
> > server does not support the XKEYBOARD extension.
> > 
> > And I don't know if it has something to do with
> this,
> > but when I run Windows XP using VMware I can not
> load
> > the keyboard map that I want (the latin), even
> when
> > Windows says the keyboard is configured in latin,
> is
> > not working.
> 
> This might be similar, however, I think it is a
> not-so-good
> configuration in your
> keyboard-cascading-configuration, the '->' in
> the next line: keyboard -> desktop-OS -> vncviewer
> -> remote-OS ->
> vmware -> guest-OS.
> 
> > 
> > Any ideas of how to fix this ?
> 
> For number 1: see above (or a hell of a job getting
> the module into vnc)
> For number 2: carefully check and re-check all
> keyboard translations.
> 
> 
> CBee
> 



		
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