OpenStep VMWare Display Driver

VMWareFB is an OpenStep display driver for the virtual display hardware in VMWare.

VMWareFB has been tested with VMWare Workstation 3.0 on Linux, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. The driver works very well on Linux, especially in full screen mode.

Note: There are some problems with initialization of the device on Windows XP, but once running, it seems very stable.

Support for other versions of VMWare is unknown. Please report any experiences with the Express and Server versions.

2003-10-02 Note: If your display appears to have very incorrect colors, then the problem is most likely that OpenStep cannot properly handle the number of colors you’re running with. Try changing the number of bits-per-pixel you’re using. Any one of 15, 16, 24, or 32 may work, but in our experience you have to experiment to find the right setting. The specific native OS version, display driver or vmware version can affect this.

Our OpenStep driver can only attempt to run at the color depth that your native OS is using.

Download VMWareFB

• README
• Pre-compiled Driver as a compressed config file – VMWareFB.config.compressed.
  • (You may need to right-click, or control-click or shift-click to download this file.)
• Source code for ProjectBuilder on NextStep 3.3 – VMWareFB.1.0.0.tar.gz.

VMWareFB.zip