How to adjust the screen resolution of VMware 5.5 Red Hat 9

Problem: after normal installation of VMware (Virtual Machine) and linux, the maximum resolution can be selected is only 800*600, which is inconvenient for the main menu-system settings-set resolution in the display to: 1280*1024, color Depth: Millions of colors, and then confirm that the message appears: You need to log out and restart x server to make the change take effect. The configuration is written to/etc/x11/xf86config. The original configuration is saved as/etc/x11/xf86config. backup. Then, I restarted, but the resolution remained unchanged.
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VMware Tools needs to be installed after multiple online queries. The specific process is as follows:
1) Start the vmwarevm and log on as the root user. Note: At this time must be in the Virtual Drive to install the third disc-"shrike-i386-disc3" 2) in the virtual machine to attach the disc, simple operation: red Hat> System Tools> disk management>/dev/cdrom mounting. 3) on the Virtual Machine VM, VM Install VMware Tools, you can see the pop-up VMware Tools compressed package, copy the VMware Tools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz to the "/tmp. 4) type "cd/tmp" on the terminal to enter the/tmp folder, type "tar xfzv VMware Tools-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz" to decompress the package, and the vmware-tools-distrib folder is generated. Www.2cto.com 5) type "cd/vmware-tools-distrib" on the terminal to enter the folder where you can see the vmware-install.pl file. 6) type ". /vmware-install.pl "[Note: there is a point in front of] run the program, after the crash will pop up a series of problems, you can always press enter to confirm (you can also set), and finally there will be a resolution list, enter the preceding number based on the resolution you want to set, press enter, and restart Red Hat ~~ 7) to set the screen resolution in the future, you only need to set the screen resolution by "Red Hat"> "system settings"> "display". The setting takes effect only after each setting. Author: perky007