[HLUG] VMware converter

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi David,

On 13/07/07, David Shorthouse <dave at david-shorthouse.co.uk> wrote:
> I ran the converter last night on my window2k laptop
>
> spec
>
> 1ghz
> 1gig Ram
> 18gig harddisk
> Running windows2k
>
> The convert took about 3 hours I copied the file onto an external drive to
> test on another machine.
> The covert asked how much space I wanted the Virtual machine to use min of
> 5gig I selected 8gig and set the parameter to allow the drive to expand if
> needed.
>
> note for some reason the screen is only 640x480 with 16colors not sure why..
> tryied updating the drivers with no joy...
> If that is how it converts it I think i will stick with vnc..

Nice to see you had some success.  Did you install the VMWare tools
which provides a native vmware graphics driver (among other things)?
I think I'll have to give it go and see what happens!

Mark