Centos 5 In Vmware Workstation don't gives desired resolution

[Mudhol]

Hi, I have recently installed Centos 5 And RedHat Linux In Vmware workstation 7.1.3 Build-324285, and both the operating system works fine but still I have serious glitch with respect it’s resolution as I can’t Get Full screen in any operating system as Its only working in 640 x 800 resolution can’t and whenever I access the property I can’t get more resolutions options there how can i get my Laptop screen resolution 1366x768.

Thanks for any suggestion.

[Zhankana_n]

there is a tool called “VMWare tools” will make you enable to use whichever resolution you want to use. Thus you should first of all make sure whether you are able to install this software in your machine or not. I am not sure about this thing because I haven’t seen anybody who had installed this software in their machine running either of the operating system you have installed.

Because as the extent to I know you can only be able to install that software only if you have installed any operating system from the windows, but as I have mentioned I am not sure, thus you should at least try for sure.

[Mudhol]

Yeah you are actually right as I am not able to install the tool that you have mentioned.

[teena_pansare]

it also depends upon the drivers as well that we use to install in our machine after formatting it, so according to me you should first of all try to make sure whether the driver you have installed supports the resolution you want. because see if the drivers are not compatible with that resolution then whatever you do with other software’s you’ll not get the same resolution.

And if possible you should try to download the latest driver for your machine that is actually compatible with the operating system you have installed so that you can simply got the desired resolution.

[kraal]

I am agree with the above user as Centos 5 and Red Hat use the Xen kernel which is not supported by Vmware tools and thus You will have to reboot machine to a non-xen kernel from Grub. Then eliminate xen and the kernel-xen packages first in order to start the further process.

As you have eliminated the packages you have to now state which kernel you wish to run in /boot/grub/grub.conf. In that file there’s a list of kernels available to boot from:

#boot=/dev/sda
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.10.el5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.img
title CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.10.el5xen)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/xen.gz-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5
module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5xen ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
module /boot/initrd-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5xen.img