Comments on: HowTo: Change VMWare Player Guest OS Display Resolution

By: pradeep

pradeep — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:58:56 +0000

Thanks it worked for me..

Centos 6.2 64bit on vmware exsi 4 ( Vsphere 4.0)
after making changes to xorg.conf
no need to restart just log out and log in back and go to display settings and select your resolution

By: Vineet

Vineet — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:31:51 +0000

I have a RHEL5 image running on my laptop (Win XP). The issue is – the image opens up in a 840×600 size (which is small). My laptop can support a max of 1280×800. I tried the above suggestion of editing the xorg.conf file, made the necessary changes (as root user) and restarted the image, but there is no change in the image size. The problem i am seeing is – even after changing the modes in teh xorg.conf file, the “SCREEN RESOLUTION” option in the RHEL “Preferences” setting does not show the new values that we have entered in the xorg.conf file. Unless, i see the new values, I cannot change the resolution.

Please help me as I have spent close to a day without any success.

Thanks,
Vineet

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:56:30 +0000

Thanks ! it worked for me..

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:26:48 +0000

Thanks! This was driving me nuts. I hate to waste screen real estate.
Worked using CentOS 5.6 on VMWare WS 7.1.4 using GNOME.

By: Scherry Lemos

Scherry Lemos — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:18:33 +0000

Thank you. It’s work just fine

By: AMJ

AMJ — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:13:33 +0000

@curtis If you use GRUB, just add vga=773 at the end of the kernel line, i.e.:


kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/mapper/cryptpool-root cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:sda2crypt ro vga=773

By: curtis

curtis — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:42:24 +0000

Is there no way to increase the window size of the player without installing X.
I am fine working on the CLI just want a larger are to work in…

By: Lior

Lior — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:41:29 +0000

Great tip! Here are some more tips on this issue:
I use centOS 5.4 guest. I already had GNOME and X11 installed.
I couldnt fine “x11″ folder… but then realized that “X” in X11 is CAPITAL… it took me some time to figure that out….
To edit the config file, I ran “gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf”
I made the updates/changes to this file as you instructed, saved and exited gedit.
I ran “startx” but it failed and told me that I’m already in a session so I had to delete a lock file which I did by running “rm /tmp/.X0-lock”
I ran “startx” again, the screen flickered and I figured that the OS doesnt know whats going on… so I rebooted the VM. It came up with same rez as beofe 800×600 but now I was able to go into the resolution settings and select 1024×768… Perfect!
Thank you so much.

By: mitke

mitke — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:41:47 +0000

Thank you. It’s work just fine

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:49:54 +0000

Thank you very much, I spent the whole day trying to fix it, now it works