[Xastir] Xastir-Hardy: logging into the VM?

[Lee Bengston]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 08:56:15PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <lee.bengston at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Alex Carver <kf4lvz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > --- On Thu, 2/19/09, Lee Bengston wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Sounds interesting, but how would one adjust the screen
>> >> resolution so
>> >> that the VM would be the right size for the monitor that is
>> >> being
>> >> used?  I assume there would still be a way to get to a
>> >> command line to
>> >> run the VMware tools script - not exactly a newbie friendly
>> >> procedure,
>> >> but that's the only way I have been able to permanently
>> >> adjust the
>> >> screen size.
>> >
>> > When I tried it with the latest VMWare player, Xastir filled whatever screen I resized the VM container to be.
>>
>> It's resizing the VM container that I was asking about.  Even with
>> VMWare tools installed, when I played the VM, I had to run the VMware
>> tools config script to change the Linux screen resolution.  I was also
>> able to change it in the window manager, but doing it that way only
>> lasted until the next re-start of the VM.  Maybe there is another easy
>> way to resize the VM container that I have been missing.
>
> The latest VMware tools and vmware player behave as Alex described, resizing
> the guest with the window.  Older versions of the tools didn't do this well.
>
> Can't explain why you're still seeing that behavior if you're using new versions
> of both.

I saw that behavior last July after the Hardy VM was completed - at
that time I thought I had downloaded the latest player.  I'm sure
there is a newer version now, so I'll give it a shot.

Thanks,
Lee