Thursday, January 20, 2011

VMWare: blank screen when "use host setting for monitor" is chosen

After booting a virtual box, I started getting a blank screen after the Windows boot progress bar dissapeared. I wasn't sure what may have changed.
Went to edit VM settings in VMWare player, and noticed that if I chose a specific resolution, I didn't get the blank screen. But - the resulting windows was too small.
Solution: ended up deleting all VM files other than .vmx and .vmdk. Booted and worked.
(Not sure what root cause was though.)

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