This machine is an athlon 1.4 with 512 megs ram, 8 meg ati rage 128 video card. just to qualify the machine specs. more then enough to run vmware. just never had a machine in the past that I would run it on til now an not it want run. not sure what to look for with the error of can not open display. jack At 03:47 PM 8/16/2001 +0200, Quinton Delpeche wrote:
Hi,
The inital install must be done as root.
But VMWare itself doesn't have to be run as root.
Q
On Thu 16 Aug 01 15:45, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Thursday 16 August 2001 09:28 am, Quinton Delpeche wrote:
Hi,
Don't run VMWare as root.
I believe VMWare *has* to be run as root. Certainly does on my system. -- Quinton Delpéche Systems Architect The Knowledge Factory
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