
Choosing and Installing Guest Operating Systems
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VMware Tools
Be sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For details, see the
manual for your VMware product or follow the appropriate link in the knowledge base
article at www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=340.
Do not start the X server in the guest operating system until you install VMware Tools
and run the SaX2 configuration utility. See Before You Start the X Server below.
Note: When you start installing VMware Tools (by typing
./vmware-install.pl in the vmware-tools-distrib directory), the
following message appears:
Found an installed version of the VMware SVGA driver for
XFree86 4. Some versions of this driver included with the
XFree86 4 distributions do not work properly. Would you
like to install a stable (but possibly older) version of
the driver over the currently installed one?
If you plan to dual-boot the virtual machine, answer Yes to allow the driver to be
installed. Answer Yes again to back up the existing video driver files and also copy the
XF86Config-4.dist file to XF86Config-4.vm. The latter file is used when
dual-booting the virtual machine.
If you do not intend to dual-boot the virtual machine, answer No to keep the existing
driver.
Before You Start the X Server
After you have installed VMware Tools, but before you start the X server, as the root
user, run the SaX2 configuration utility to configure your X server. At a command
prompt, type SaX2 and use the wizard to configure your X server. If you intend to
connect to this virtual machine with the VMware Virtual Machine Console, configure
the color resolution for 65536 (16-bit) colors or less.
After you run SaX2 you may boot your SuSE Linux 8.2 virtual machine with any of the
selections offered in GRUB.
Enabling Sound After Installing SuSE Linux 8.2
VMware GSX Server: The sound device is disabled by default and must be enabled
with the virtual machine control panel (VM > Settings) after the operating system has
been installed. To set up the virtual machine to play sound, see Configuring Sound in
the GSX Server documentation.
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