First of all, hello to all of you. I found it very interesting finding this forum when I was searching for NEXTSTEP virtualisation network tweaks.
First of all I'm new here and rather new to NEXTSTEP. I don't own any NeXT-hardware (never found any here in Sweden).
However any OS is interesting to me, so I just had to tweak with it a little. I must say that I'm very impressed by it and can really se Mac OS X in it.
So:
I would need some help though. I made a small install-series of NS 3.3 on top of VMw Fusion and 10.6.2 (Snow) I got everything running and have 1920x1200 resolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj8Hyz-7arUHowever I seem to have some problems getting network on it. I'm using VMXNet and tried to config it twice resulting in a total reinstall of the system.
I found this guide but havn't tried it yet. Do I maybe have to reconfig my VMw-settings?
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2285Thanks in advance!
How did you get this to work? Anything above 1024x768 I try in Configure.app crashes on me - also, there aren't any widescreen resolutions shown when I try to change it on my system.
sampsa, you are probably using an old version of the VMwareFB display driver (1.0.0), which does not support resolutions greater than 1024x768 by default.
You can find the latest version of the driver here:
https://github.com/andreas-g/VMwareFB/downloadsThis should solve your problems. If you have any question about this version of the driver you can find a thread on it here:
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2326&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0Edit: Updated link to driver download page.
Thanks - that worked. However, now my mouse won't access parts of the screen beyond a rectangle that I think is the old 1024x768 resolution - I assume this is to do with my old VM mouse driver, is there an updated version of that as well somewhere?
Take a look at the mouse driver's configuration panel. At the bottom of the panel you should see input fields where you can enter values for your screen's height (h) and width (w). These values have to match the height and width you have chosen for the display driver.