Hi, I finally got redhat 9.0 installed in vmware 4 on Windows XP (I had some trouble as in a post below). Everything is fine, --I installed all the packages I wanted; the internet is fine, --except that I can not get vmware tools installed in redhat, and because of that, I have a poor resolution of 800x600. When I tried to install vmware tools, it failed with an error message like "all instances of XFree86 should be shut down" ,but I do not know how to do it.

Anyone has a clue? I use a wireless adapter to access to the internet, whose performance is really poor in real linux, thus I really want to often use linux on vmware.

Thanks a lottttt.

got the solution from vmware.com.........install it under text mode.......... But why I could install it in redhat 8.0 under G-mode?

can you tell us which specific ones you didnt choose

You have to be in text mode to install video card drivers - or else you'll be trying to update files that are currently in use.

No you dont, edit /etc/XF86Config(-4) with the correct information and reboot the X-server... of course you have to know the driver, monitor vertical and horizontal refresh rate and range of proper resolutions to do so. Redhat sucks

I think that's a bit what I was trying to say. I know that whenever I try to edit /etc/XF86Config-4 from within X, as soon as I save the file, random things keep crashing on me (maybe it's just me?) So now I always edit it from a console cuz I figure the file settings rely on stuff that's currently in use???

I'm not sure I understand why things randomly happen.... The XF86Config(-4) file is only run when you start an X-server. I don't believe changes in the file will occur until you start/reboot an X-server. If it were using the file in real-time (which would be highly inefficient to parse through and poll for changes), the file would presumably be locked to read-only. Besides, you can start an X-server on various displays :0,:1 to name two. Change your XF86Config(-4) file and then try seeing the changes on a different display, ie: xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/X --screen <MyScreen> :1

http://www.vmware.com

1 Uninstall your current VMWare
2 Download and install the latest VMWare.2
3 Reboot
4 Start up Linux (I boot into GUI mode)
5 Enable Linux Tools (Menu->File). This loads a CD image with compressed file.
6 Open the CD icon that appears, Open the file. It wil read the contents, much like WinZip does.
7 Extract the tools, simply click on the file that appears in the contents window, press extract, and select /root/ as the destination.
8 Now the magic: open up a terminal, and enter the command "telinit 3". This will shutdown XFree86 and leave you with a good old command line.
9 Login again, and cd /root/vmware-tools (I think thats it, but you can find it easily with ls).
10 Start the install off: ./vmware-tools-install.pl
11 Answer all questions (press return, thats all I did, to accept the defaults).
12 When it completes, "use telinit 5" to get back to graphical mode.

Quote:John conner
HEAVY.........

I mostly use free BSD

I dunno why things happen weird for me. Does anyone else experience this? (Problems when not restarting the X server after updating the XF86Config-4 file?

did you guys get Redhat to communicate with your host system using VMWare ? Mine doesn't seem to find the ethernet card