need to get the guest operating system to adapt to the screen of the monitor...

one of my guest OS is a windows 2003 server and doesn't have the resolution to fit my screen with resolution of 1680 x 1050... How could I get thar resolution on my windows vm client... by the way, I'm under vmware server 2.0 on Linux (OpenSUSE)

Thank you

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miatech wrote:

I've looked everywhere and I don't see the "AutoFit window" any where... remember I'm on Linux.

Maybe... I use Workstation, Server and ESX together. I mix therefore upward while not directly on the system.

In my humble VIEW VMWare Server is designed to run servers, so do not expect the same comfort as a workstation.

I also decided to add these lines to the svga.maxWidth file .vmx = '1680 '.

svga.maxHeight = "1050", but it did not help I have colleagues, I have to change the registry then...

As described in this post that I posted above.

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