Since I just posted on installing Kubuntu 7.04 to a VMWare Player virtual machine, I thought I would update two small additions to those instructions to make your environment even better.
First, VMWare Player 2.0 was released, and includes support for 2 CPUs. So, unlike my original instructions, go ahead into your VMX file and ratchet the number of virtual CPUs up to 2 (assuming you have 2 CPUs or a dual-core machine) – the performance in your virtual environment should take a nice boost.
Second, I had trouble getting my KDE desktop to use my full monitor resolution, in fact I could not get above 1024 x 768, but I finally discovered the setting to fix this – and maybe this is well documented somewhere else but I did not turn it up elsewhere after some quick searching. Here are some quick steps:
- You need the VMWare SVGA driver installed. This appears to be already installed if you install Kubuntu 7.04. Otherwise, it is installed as part of VMWare Tools, which you can install using Adept Package Manager in Ubuntu / Kubuntu. VMWare also has an RPM download if you search in their support database.
- This alone was not enough for me though – my monitor, after install, had defaulted to Custom. I had to set this to Plug-and-Play, and restart KDE. Once done, I could change to any resolution I wanted, including 16:9 resolutions.
Two little changes but they make a big difference to the overall performance and usability of your virtual environment.
I have general question about host CPU resources
using. If I have a single thread application
but multi core host CPU. Can i use all cores
when i will run this application using VM-player ??
Does any virtual solution exist which will allow this ??