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sol10
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‎07-16-2008 02:46 PM

Using Solaris NVIDIA driver on a Solaris 10 x86 guest - Workstation 6.0.4

Since I haven't received any replies to another post, I thought that I would ask a very simple question in the hopes of getting a helpful answer. I am considering buying 20+ VMware licenses, but have to get this test case to work in order to do so.

In a Vmware Workstation environment with a Solaris 10 x86 64-bit guest on a WinXP 32-host, can Solaris recognize the installed Solaris NVIDIA video drivers? Or can Solaris only see the VMware video drivers? The latter seems to be the case.

Thank you...

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Peter_vm
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‎07-16-2008 05:53 PM

Only VMware video. Video is emulated, no passthrough possible.

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sol10
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‎07-16-2008 08:33 PM

Thank you for the info! I appreciate it.

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sol10
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‎07-16-2008 08:37 PM

Using the VMware video dirvers, then, do you know of a way I can configure the Xserver to support an 8-bit pseudocolor visual? I need to run Xnest with a preudocolor visual.

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