>I have created a Linux virtual machine in order to use it as a test server
>for web development. I have now installed it twice. The first time the
>screen resolution was impossible to see - just dots. When I installed it
>the second time I changed the resolution and screen size in the Linux
>install. Then I lost most of the images on the screen, so I went to full
>screen to see if there was any effect. No - so I changed a bunch of
>parameters and options in the VM and finally everything showed fine in the
>full screen, except the geometry stayed at 800x600 - in other words there
>was a full black screen with a tiny 800x600 portion showing the actual
>Linux machine. I can't get this back into Window mode. I have tried
>everything - including the command line methods shown in Help and it just
>won't cooperate. What am I missing?
>
> I tried to install the VM addtions and VPC loads the .iso, but then does
> nothing with it. I tried installing it separately by extracting it with
> ISO Buster, but got an error that it could only be installed from within
> VPC. Any suggestions?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Christina
>

> What distribution of linux?
>
> Do not attempt to use 24bit color depth. If the distro defaults to that,
> change to 16.
>
> The virtual machine additions included with VPC do not support linux.
> Linux additions are available for Virtual Server for selected
> distributions of linux.
>
> "Christina" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>>I have created a Linux virtual machine in order to use it as a test server
>>for web development. I have now installed it twice. The first time the
>>screen resolution was impossible to see - just dots. When I installed it
>>the second time I changed the resolution and screen size in the Linux
>>install. Then I lost most of the images on the screen, so I went to full
>>screen to see if there was any effect. No - so I changed a bunch of
>>parameters and options in the VM and finally everything showed fine in the
>>full screen, except the geometry stayed at 800x600 - in other words there
>>was a full black screen with a tiny 800x600 portion showing the actual
>>Linux machine. I can't get this back into Window mode. I have tried
>>everything - including the command line methods shown in Help and it just
>>won't cooperate. What am I missing?
>>
>> I tried to install the VM addtions and VPC loads the .iso, but then does
>> nothing with it. I tried installing it separately by extracting it with
>> ISO Buster, but got an error that it could only be installed from within
>> VPC. Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christina
>>
>

> Hi,
>
> Linux 8 - I noted on MS's site that they apparently only support Linux on
> VM Server 2005 now, and that doesn't include RH 8 - they skip from 7.3 to
> 9. Argghhh. I did see some support stating that you have to use the
> default video driver and I had changed that to the actual card driver.
> Hmmm...now what to do? Re-install, download another version, or Suse
> Linux?
>
> This all seemed to simple to start with....
> Christina