...First of all, thank you! I decided to take the plunge on VMWare Fusion yesterday, based on good reviews and the active community and these forums have already helped me through many little problems and questions, to get a running installation!
I installed Fusion 1.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.11 on an Intel-based Mac Book. I am occasionally prone to wild flights of fancy, so I had already turned the machine into a triple-boot installation -- with Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.04 in two other partitions. The partition were set up in GParted from the Ubuntu disk. The machine boots into rEFIt to allow me to choose OSs. I was pleased to see that I could virtualize those partitions through Fusion.
After installing Fusion and some great advice here, some other forums and a couple of blogs, i saw how to create installations that pointed to the raw disks for the Windows and Linux partitions and have been able to boot each OS in a virtual machine and as a standalone OS.
Windows runs perfectly, after a few tweaks. However, something was adversely affected in Ubuntu. After the startup screen and part of the checklist -- I'm not sure exactly where it stops -- the screen turns blue and sports some gibberish characters as a border around a grey box that says: "Failed to start the X Server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly." Looking at server output yields this additional message, "Fatal server error: no screens found." However, once I accept all error messages, I am delivered to the command line login -- so the Linux installation is working.
Based on further reading, I determined it might be best to try running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" -- i saw an article at a blog that's been useful in the past that indicated Fusion might need to run at a lower resolution. I added an "800 x 600" option under resolution. The process continues smoothly for about one more screen. Then, when the option screen for default color depth in bits comes up, no matter what I choose, the command line pops up again under the configure screen with this message: "xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customized configuration file: backup in /etc/x11/xorg.conf.20080129201702" and sets me back at the command line prompt.
Incidentally, this same sequence plays out if I boot directly into Ubuntu as well....
FYI: As you can guess from the triple-boot installation, I am not unfamiliar with the CLI, I'm no coward and I'm willing to do some research. However, I'm more of an adventurer than an expert. I use GUI tools as far as I can and the command line where I must. Since it looks like I may need to do a lot of this from the command line, I may need a little hand-holding. I do learn quick and don't expect anyone to do the work for me!
Any insight is appreaciated -- thanks again!
