Joel Hainley » client resolution http://www.joelhainley.com my thoughts and adventures Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:34:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Setting Resolution On VMWare Guest Running On Windows XP Host http://www.joelhainley.com/index.php/2008/02/19/setting-resolution-on-vmware-guest-running-on-windows-xp-host/ http://www.joelhainley.com/index.php/2008/02/19/setting-resolution-on-vmware-guest-running-on-windows-xp-host/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:31:08 +0000 joelhainley http://www.joelhainley.com/index.php/2008/02/19/setting-resolution-on-vmware-guest-running-on-windows-xp-host/ I have been using vmware to host specialized development and testing environments for various clients. With a reasonably powerful machine there isn’t a perceptible difference between a vm and a native install for your workstation plus it offers an impressive amount of flexibility for things. Backups are a snap, moving development environments around can be exciting as well. Thus far it has been a huge win.

I just installed a windows xp vm on my laptop and while my Debian install automagically setup the correct resolution, I wasn’t able to set the xp vm to a widescreen resolution within the vm. So I dug around and found that simply opening the file <yourvmname>.vmx and adding the following lines :

svga.maxWidth = “1680″
svga.maxHeight = “1050″

Save the file. Then reboot the vm. Go into the display settings in the vm and set it to the desired resolution, that’s all there is to it.

The one thing that I don’t know for sure is whether you need to have the VMTools installed for this to work. However I think the VMTools make the vm a little more useful on the desktop so it’s probably worth installing them.

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