What about VMware's assertion that their virtualization will allow "vga & svga" resolution?

On a 2560x1600 panel, that works out to a guest-OS window that is a teensy square, merely 2.5" by 3".

Alright, I've spent the last hour perusing VMware's site & their PDFs, and while I can find that it provides an intel "svga" virtual-chip, I cannot find any resolution-information, either online or in the vmware workstation-6 manual.

Maybe they're hiding it, because they're ashamed of the truth?

Maybe I'll install it ( demo-vers ), to discover the truth. . .

Ok this is to the guy who wrote the thread above...

There our loads of versions of vmware, the one they are on about is most likely ESX server. You probably downloaded a trial of vmware workstation or something. If you want something free you need vmware player. You can't create VM's with it by default but look around it is possible. Virtualbox can do it and has a nice seamless mode. Virtual PC can also do it.

No one who cares about VM technology really cares about if screensavers work or not. 3D acceleration doesnt work well with linux guests, but I mean who cares about a guest screensaver? if you want a Screensaver put it on the host OS. 

And yeah if you run 5 guest OS's on the same machine you need the performance to go with it... That is obvious...

"It's not some magical thing that turns your barely-able-to-run-Vista box into one that can suddenly handle both Vista and another OS"
- and no one ever said it was.

Now, you really need to read up about the use of virtualisation, the use in entreprise and think about wether or not you actually understand anything that's written on theinquirer....

Speaking as an expert on the subject, although you can hear a dog talk by running linux on XP, the correct way is to use linux (or some other unix like system) to be the host OS, and run your M$, BSD, linux guests on top of.

The gnome and X screensavers quite definitely work, and u2be videos play and can be heard from the M$ systems.

Vista is 1/2 ass, just like on the physical machine...

Just because you cannot run vmware properly or even set it up for that matter, why go posting on the internet about it like this, you look like an idiot and these new processors are only going to help with things like VM's.

Hummmm, why does our college VMware run a rubbish tiny-resolution Linux within XP (with no options to resize it any bigger - and Virtual PC ain't any better at that), and despite it is meant to be free, when I went to download it it said I needed a software key?

I very like the sound and promises of virtual machines, but until I'm actually running at least a few OSs within one other OS, and it's really as-if I installed them as true OS boots in use (ie - full-featured (hello - the great Suse screensavers don't work anymore when it's within XP, & other issues, that were fine on a bootable OS on the exact same computer), FULL-SCREEN), then I'll have found my grail as regards virtual machine apps.

Also, don't be fooled.....if you want to run multiple / more than one OS you need the hardware to support it! It's not some magical thing that turns your barely-able-to-run-Vista box into one that can suddenly handle both Vista and another OS, just because you are using a virtual machine.
It saves on space / footprint, not hardware specs.

And it's fun for setting up within-within-within fake networks....

fool people into thinking you run a thriving sprawling network, then they turn up @ the real location and it's one computer and an op with a jesters hat on.

Pat G. isn't dancing in the isles. He dancing on stage. Do I have to tell you who and where the real monkey's are?

SPARKS

VMware doesn't run the fancy SuSE screen savers because it doesn't officially support 3D acceleration. I forget how, but there's a way to enable experimental 3D for VMs, but I don't know if Linux supports it.

I like virtualization. My main PC at home can run 6 XP VMs and a Server 2003 VM with XP as the host and its specs aren't that impressive, just lots of RAM. Note, however, that I said "run" and not "run well." =P

It would be nice if VMs could support 3D acceleration well. Perhaps just a pass-through that allows only one VM to use it at a time.