How can I fix the screen resolution for centos (6.5 or 6.6) in vmware workstation or vmware player?
This works for VMWARE running in both a Windows 7 and centos 6.5/6.6 enviroments.
This was a problem I ran into with centos 6.5 and centos 6.6 on vmware workstation and vmware player(7.0.0 build-2305329). In the display section I can't select a display resolution that is suitable for my monitor. Simple remove (you might want to back up this file but I think it is unnecessary) this file
/etc/X11/xorg.con
as a root user. Like so
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.con
Then restart your system. Now in the top bar (menu bar) on your desktop, go to system, preferences, display.
In the display section you can now choice what ever resolution you like.
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I am using VMware Workstation 15.5 and trying to install CentOS 8. When I boot and it starts the installer it gives me a message on the
bottom "Pane is dead". I tried to set "install operating system later", picked CentOS 7, selected ISO as the CD ROM device and attempted the install.
Unfortunately VMware does not pick up the boot device as ISO and goes right to DHCP boot. So I tried a CentOS 7 ISO, same thing. I just upgraded VMware Workstation from 15.0 to 15.5.
I finally find a solution to this problem.
You need to download your CentOS 8 iso.
Open VMware and create a virtual machine like normal, editing as you want, and don't worry if VMware detects it as CentOS 5 or
earlier, just keep ongoing.
Launch your VM and wait, if it shows you the "Pane is dead" just turn off the virtual machine.
Open de settings of your VM and just remove the disk "Using the autoinst.iso"
Open again your virtual machine and the problem probably will be fixed.
I installed CentOs to VirtualBox. However, after installation finishes, i reboot the system but i get black screen again installation.There is no CentOS start command/button. All are about installation again. How can i fix this situation ?
You have installation media (CD/USB drive) before HDD in boot order. Just remove/unmount ISO and let VM to boot from HDD.
I am using centos 5.8 in xencenter , i need to upgrade to centos6.5.
i tried with yum update it will updated to centos 5.10 only,please any one help me.
Thanks,
Prasad
I am guessing that you are trying to update a virtual machine. If this is the case then you can try the following.
Boot your CentOS 5.8 VM using the CentOS6 ISO
On the initial screen press tab
when the boot command appears, append upgradeany
vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img upgradeany
When you pass the language and devices selections and the system is done examining the storage, you will be prompted if you want to upgrade an existing installation and be shown a drop down list of versions that were found.
Just installed CentOS 5.8 on a VM using VMware Fusion 3.1.4 on my MB Mac OS X 10.7.4 and have the following problem. CentOS finished to install and re-start. The result, a nice black screen. I rebooted CentOS (on the VM) no success. I rebooted VMware Fusion, no success. I rebooted the whole machine (physical machine) no success.
Is there anywhere VMware Fusion log booting errors I can investigate why I have this annoying black screen?
VMware Fusion logs errors in the virtual machine's bundle.
So, for example, if your virtual machine appears on your hard disk on the desktop as:
myvm
you will find it in Terminal at:
cd ~/Desktop
ls -1 myvm*
... myvm.vmwarevm
then:
cd myvm.vmwarevm
you will see:
vmware.log
(and maybe vmware-0.log, etc, which will be older logs; vmware-0 being second most recent, vmware-1 being third most recent.)
A very late answer, but hope that is some help.
I have CentOS-5.6 running on the Oracle's VirtualBox. I would like to know if it possible to have it in full-screen size when running X Window applications. I know such feature is available with VMWare player (you need to download additional vmware tools).
Thanks.
You can follow the instructions on VirtualBox's site for installing Guest Additions. That should allow the screen to automatically resize when you fullscreen VirtualBox. In addition, you may have to adjust the screen resolution in X afterwards if Guest Additions alone don't solve your problem.
You need Virtual Box guest extensions.
In order to install them you first need the RPMForge repository added for yum, follow these instructions:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge#head-5aabf02717d5b6b12d47edbc5811404998926a1b
Then run this command in a terminal:
yum install dkms