My windows xp box has vmware installed with one virtuall instance of fedora core 5 installed. Everything works fine except it doesn't recognize my osprey video card in the pci slot. I have vmware tools installed, that didn't help. Just looking for any suggestions...

You misunderstand a virtual machine. The vmware is a sofware copy of a real computer but not your computer. What you'd need is something like xen or a solaris zone or other true virtualization. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.

no, I understand what a virtual machine is, how it works,...I may have worded my original request a bit funny but I do understand. I still havent found an answer to my question...how come Fedora core 5 is not recognizing the pci slot video card. This customer has another, older computer set up the same way and it does recognize the video card.

Sorry, Then you may have something new on me. What you are saying is that an OS installed as a virtual machine can access the PCI resources of the host computer? Might ask that on the vmware forums if you can't get a solution here? I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.

Vmware tools only installs emulates the hardware it sits on. Presumably the video card is more than likely not compatible with your local host.Remember a virtual machine is NO DIFFRENT to a physical disc.Its attributes are the same. The only way around that would be to hunt for a linux compatible driver for your card to work with Fedora.As is the case with most Linux distro`s hardware and driver support normally requires alot of thorough research.

I do not usually suggest alternative software if I can think of a way to help solve a problem with what is at hand, but this thread has been around for a few days with no viable solution ... I run Mandriva Linux here, and I use VirtualBox to run WinXP in a vm. VirtualBox is also available for Windows and OS X (Intel MAC's only) hosts. The VirtualBox binaries are available free of charge for personal and evaluation use. One difference between VirtualBox and VMware is that while VMware provides direct access to the host machines hardware (or an emulation of that specific hardware), VirtualBox provides a more generic virtual machine. When you initially install the guest OS, you use a vesa driver. VirtualBox provides guest additions in the form of an iso image which can be mounted directly (no need to burn to a CD) as if it were a CD connected to the vm. The guest additions image contains installers for both Windows and Linux guest OS's (which means the VirtualBox video adapter will work with your Linux guest OS). This may not be the solution you were looking for, but I think it is at least worthy of your consideration. HTH, Ernie Registered Linux User 247790 ICQ 41060744