[wplug] [Slightly OT]-VMWare and Mulitple Heads

[Vanco, Don]

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>Behalf Of beer
>Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 12:55 PM
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>Subject: [wplug] [Slightly OT]-VMWare and Mulitple Heads
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>
>One of my co-workers recently forsook linux on one of his work 
>machines.  The reason he cited involved vmware and his new 
>three-headed display configuration.  
>
>The application he uses most is a windows app, and his 
>original plan was to run the app in a virtual machine.  
>However, it seems vmware wont recognize all-three heads in 
>linux (it does when run under windows), at least that is his 
>impression.  
>
>I am certain that there must be a way to configure vmware 
>under linux to recognize and utilize all three displays, has 
>anyone every undertaken such an endeavor?
	Don't be so sure - you're running in a 100% emulated hardware
environment - the OS only sees what the VM supplies it, and what the VM
supplies it is a very rudimentary video card.  AFAIK - there's no way to
get your actual hardware "seen" in VMWare - but all I deal with these
days is ESX server, still I have no reason to believe that the lesser
products would offer more functionality.  While I've never tested it, I
have no reason to believe that a VM will even see multiple video cards,
much less something high-zoot and multi-headed.....  Your co-worker is
likely stuck on Windoze.

Don