Anyone got X Window to work on Linux on VMWARE for Windows?

[brinkley.j.harrell at mail.sprint.com]

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> From: Christian Seberino,,, [mailto:seberino at dt092n42.san.rr.com]On
> Behalf Of Christian Seberino
> 
> Thanks for the help. Mandrake should work if RedHat works...
> 
> I *think* I installed VMWARE Tools.  It doesn't
> start a wizard or anything to make me think it did install.
> Only clue is on Settings menu, the option changes
> from "VMWARE Tools Install" to "Cancel VMWARE Tools Install".
> Even more insidious is when I rebooted VMWARE for Windows
> it FORGOT I installed VMWARE Tools and I had to do it
> again.  Is there something I'm doing wrong so that it
> is not installing this right and permanently???
> 
> How do you install the "virtual display drivers" too??


Unfortunately, I have been a VMware user since before Release Version 
1.0 so I download and install directly from the web for upgrades.

The tools and the new video driver for X should install directly out of 
the virtual CDROM that is the "Tools Install".

That said -- I have had my older installations of Linux around since 
then also. To _U_P_G_R_A_D_E the Linux installation, I have had to 
shutdown to a non-X terminal (init 2 or 3) on Redhat and reconfigure the 
X-server. This has gotten demonstrably easier in the later Redhat 
releases.

The vmware-toolbox is a "per user session" application. It is not 
automatically configured to start unless the login shell script starts 
it up and spawns it off. In a hosted M$ Windows session, it does operate 
as a task bar tool and loads automatically whenever the VMware session 
is restarted.

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