Problems with Your Graphical Display

When running X in a Linux guest operating system, the following warning message appears: Your X11 server lacks DPMS support.

DPMS, or Display Power Management System, is a facility used by X servers for automatically powering down or blanking the computer's display. This functionality is not supported in a virtual machine. However, some applications enable DPMS by default (including the KDE desktop).

To avoid receiving this warning message, be sure that DPMS is turned off in the guest operating system. In KDE, follow these steps to turn off DPMS:

1. Open the KDE Control Center.
2. Expand the Desktop node.
3. Click DPMS.
4. Deselect the DPMS Enabled option.

A Direct3D graphics program cannot run inside a virtual machine.

VMware products do not support Direct3D graphics for virtual machines. Therefore, applications that require this feature cannot run inside a virtual machine, even if they install without errors.

Color appears strangely when the remote console is in windowed mode and changes when the cursor focus moves between the remote console windows and the management workstation.

VMware does not recommend using a host X display that uses pseudocolor (8 bit, 256 color). This is a standard limitation of pseudocolor X servers.