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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to change the window size of Linux console in VMware? Post 302479513 by citaylor on Saturday 11th of December 2010 02:51:37 AM
Old 12-11-2010
Are you talking about the guest O/S window ? If so you set this when you run "vmware-config-tools.pl". Re-run this script on the guest and you should be asked the resolution again.
 

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vmware

VMWARE(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							 VMWARE(4)

NAME

       vmware - VMware SVGA video driver

SYNOPSIS

       Section "Device"
	 Identifier "devname"
	 Driver "vmware"
	 ...
       EndSection

DESCRIPTION

       vmware is an Xorg driver for VMware virtual video cards.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS

       Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details.	This section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.

       The driver auto-detects the version of any virtual VMware SVGA adapter.

       The following driver Options are supported:

       Option "HWCursor" "boolean"
	      Enable or disable the HW cursor.	Default: off.

       Option "Xinerama" "boolean"
	      Disable or enable Xinerama support. Default: xinerama is enabled if the hardware supports it.

       Option "StaticXinerama" "string"
	      Provide  a  static  xinerama  geometry  that  will be active at server startup and will not be overridden at runtime.  The format is
	      "Width1xHeight1+Xoffset1+Yoffset1;Width2xHeight2+Xoffset2+Yoffset2" and so on. Negative offsets are not supported.

SEE ALSO

       Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)

AUTHORS

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