Display is not coming while running on VMware

[Kam Leo]

On 5/12/06, Ankur Saxena <ankursaxena.in at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Windows XP host OS with FC5 as VMware client OS in my situation.
> I have VMware 5.0 and I have a proper FC5 installation, means I can boot in
> FC5 and work on it. the problem is if I boot in Windows XP Professional and
> try to use VMware to boot FC5 my display is not coming and I have to login
> from console.
>
> When I was on Suse, there was something called SCM in which I can have
> different boot
> Profile and I can choose any of them on grub screen.
>
> Do we have any thing like "Suse SCM" in FC5?
>
> Ankur Saxena.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Kam Leo
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 2:44 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Display is not coming while running on VMware
>
> On 5/10/06, Ankur Saxena <ankursaxena.in at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> >
> > I have Compaq nx6120 laptop and I have installed FC5 and I managed to
> > configured my intel
> >
> > PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless and it works fine for me.
> >
>
> What is your OS configuration!  Are you booting FC5?  Is FC5 your host
> OS in this instance?
>
> >
> > When I am trying to run FC5 from windows display is not coming (might be
> > because already windows
>
>
> Windows XP host OS with FC5 as VMware client OS?
>
> Or is it FC5 host OS and FC5 client OS?
>
> >
> > is using the same hardware), Do we have something in FC5 which work like
> SCM
> > in Suse, with SCM
> >
> > you can choose different hardware and service profiles while booting so do
> > we have that kind of facility in FC5.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ankur Saxena
> >
>

Did you install vmware-tools and the vmware-tools-any-update1.tar.gz
patch for your client?