holy crap! man, you're a genius! works like a charm.

just copy and paste what 4g0st1n0 said in the vmx file and voila!

originally posted by 4g0st1n0:

"I think that the problem is with the video resolution.

I put this line to my vmx file:

svga.maxWidth = "640"
svga.maxHeight = "480"

to force the vga resolution. After this the installation was ok.

After the installation of Vista I removed the lines and i have installed the vmware tools.

4g0st1n0."

woahhhhhhhh,

That was awesome. How did you figure that out 4g0st1n0?

NICE JOB. This problem was eating my head too. Thanks a lot for your resolution. However, whenever I shut down vista I get the "blue screen of death" But I don't think thats connected to the resolution. Or is it?

NEways, I'm happy I could install and now begin testing vista.

thanks again.
mooths...

Thanks for the great tip 4g0st1n0. Worked great!

4g0st1no - *THANK YOU* *THANK YOU* *THANK YOU*

Sometimes it's great when a fresh pair of eyes takes a look at a longstanding problem. This is a *FANTASTIC* workaround and now enables a lot more people (including myself!) to return to workstation and do proper testing.

I know that a fix is (supposedly!) in the works from MS and also VMWare, but having this workaround is just sooooo great!

Again, thank you.

Have a virtual pint on me!

Cheers,
Mike

A clean fix to get Vista installed, but is anyone having difficulty reseting the graphical inteferface now they've generated a 640x480 display?

I'm operating an IBM T40 series laptop, and if I add the lines suggested I can get Vista RC1 5600 installed fine. VMWare tools install successfully, but I'm unable to then modify the internal Vista graphical display screen resolution (it has only one setting 640x480).

If I remove the 640 and 480 lines from the VMX file I end up with no display on the power-up of the virtual machine.

I've tried a few virtual machine builds to make sure it wasn't something I introduced. I'll keep digging, but just wondered if there was anyone else suffering the same issue.

Cheers,

Joe.

Great 'outside-the-box' thinking. You rock!

i had no problems at all regarding my resolution.

i first installed vista rc1. then i installed vmware tools. then i removed the lines of svga 640 & 480. after i booted again i had all the options of selecting the resolution i want. i tried this at my friends place. no problem there also

Excellent, worked for me to !

Cheers