Re: Frame Buffers on VMware ESX using CentOS

Rick Thiessen wrote:
> I am working on a project that requires creating PDF's
> with Oracle Forms using Frame Buffers.  We have been 
> doing this on HP-UX but need to move off to a Blade 
> Server group running VMware ESX.  The Instance of VMware
> will be running Redhat Enterprise-4.3 or CentOS-4.3.
> 
> What do I need to setup Frame Buffers under these OS versions?
> What should I look for as far as devices?

You'll have to use VESA framebuffer.  There exists patch for VMware SVGA 
framebuffer, but it was never merged in.  As you are using ESX, you'll 
probably also want to add

svga.vramSize = 16777216

to VM's *.vmx configuration file, so VM has 16MB framebuffer instead of 
default 4MB one - but it depends on resolution and color depth you want 
to use.  Just boot kernel with appropriate vga=XXX argument (f.e. 
vga=773 to get 1024x768/8bpp) and you should be in framebuffer.  You 
probably want to disable rhgb to have full control over this.
							Petr Vandrovec


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