Dual Monitors with VMWare - Ubuntu Host and Windows Guest
June 22, 2007 – 12:28 amI run Ubuntu, Feisty Fawn 7.04 as my host with Windows XP Professional as the guest. When I go to full screen in VMware I would get each monitor displaying the same thing. What I wanted to do was get the display to stretch across the two monitors. Here is the step by step:
- Open your *.vmx configuration file.
- Mine was at /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional/Windows XP Professional.vmx
- Add the following to your .vmx file. (Assuming that your native resolution is 1280×1024)
- svga.maxWidth=2560
- svga.maxHeight=1024
- Note that you can change the numbers to 2496 and 950 if you want to leave some room for the Ubuntu Desktop.
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