Getting VMWare Server to display in 1280×800
August 23, 2007
Recently, I have been playing around with Vmware server to run Windows as a guest OS to Linux. I did encountered a problem with the display resolution. Like many laptop, my screen resolution is 1280×800. After I install the Vmware tool, I find that I cannot set the resolution to 1280×800. The only option appears to be 1280×960, which is beyond what the LCD can handle.
To fix the problem, I go to the Vmware directory for my virtual machine (mine is at /var/lib/vmware-server/Virtual Machine. Locate your virtual machine and edit the vmx file in this folder and add the following line:
svga.maxWidth = “1280″
svga.maxHeight = “800″
After adding the lines, reboot the virtual machine. Now when you select the display resolution, 1280×800 will be available.
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Michael | October 10, 2007 at 7:06 pm
I assume you mean:
svga.maxWidth = “1280″
svga.maxHeight = “800″
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paulsiu | October 18, 2007 at 9:24 am
You are correct. I have made the correction. Thanks!
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Stavros | March 11, 2008 at 5:27 am
Very good man. I was searching for this feature. VMWare must ad this resolution because it is very common in laptops
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Rex Wildo | April 18, 2008 at 1:28 am
Thanks a lot
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esChin | April 23, 2008 at 11:45 am
perfect
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Rick Herrick | June 5, 2008 at 10:02 am
A very helpful tip! I used a combination of this to set my full-screen resolution and Autofit Guest for windowed resolutions. This works well with a Vista host with Ubuntu, Vista, and W2K3 guest VMs.
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RaSca | June 19, 2008 at 6:05 am
Very useful post. Keep up the good work !!!
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Piyush Soni | October 9, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Doesn’t work on Vista Host, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Anybody found a solution for that?
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Pablo | January 15, 2009 at 8:02 am
Thanks a lot!!
VERY helpful.