Knoppix and VMWare network and display quirks

Just installed VMWare Workstation 3.2 tryout version and Knoppix 3.1 built on 2003-1-20. The host is a P4 running Windows XP with an Ati Radeon 9000.

I can boot Knoppix just fine. It boots to 1024x768 resolution and all is well. But if I specify a resolution in the boot prompt, like 1280x1024, the VMWare Window is somehow stretched to a much larger size and I have to scroll the display around? It is like the 1280x1024 resolution is somehow magnified on-screen. It persists if I go full-screen. How to get 1280x1024 normal size?

I have chosen bridged network from VMWare. Knoppix gets an IP from my DHCP server on my network, and can ping outside hosts. But any other protocol will not go through. No telnet, no traceroute, no surfing, nothing. The host computer has a software firewall but it creates no notifications about any traffic. The host can ping Knoppix and vice versa, but that is all. Any other protocol will not get through. How to enable full networking?

Any other VMWare+Knoppix tricks are sure welcome, too!

Regardless, disable the firewall. Does vmware networking work with other virtual machines? I've had no problems at all using vmware with knoppix. I think the problem is outside rather than inside. Also if you exceed your desktop resolution then it will scroll around.

How do you change the resolution so that it is a higher resolution than what it is WITHOUT scrolling?

See the last line of my reply.

I do not enjoy having to scroll and am looking for the way to do it without scrolling....

The point about the resolution was that the resolution selected at the boot prompt is not greater than the resolution of the display, but the seleted resolution somehow gets magnified so it looks larger than it should be. This happens at every resolution selected at boot prompt. Even 1024x768 will be larger than 1600x1200 because of the maginification. The screen is only normal size when nothing is specified in the boot prompt. I do not know if other resolutions than 1024x768 will be ok because I do not know how to change the resolution inside Knoppix as my minikeyboard does not have numpad+-.

I need to test if the networking works between virtual machines will be back on that later.

using the numpad +/- is has the same effect as what you discribed.