Hackintosh + VMWare = Lion in Lion - Resolution problem

[awsm]

So my hackintosh runs Lion 10.7.3

I also want to run Lion as a Virtual Machine in VMWare. I re-downloaded 10.7.3 from the MAS and VMWare detected it and installed it just fine without needing iBoot or any other bootloader.

Runs fine except I can't modify my resolution, it's fixed at 1024x768 which looks awful on a 2560x1440 monitor!

The display is detected as spdisplays_display.

Does anyone know what I can do to this vanilla installation to get my display detected correctly so I can change the resolution?

I don't have this problem running various Linux Distros or Windows on VMWare. etc

 

[neilhart]

What version of VMWare Fusion are you running? And did VMWare tools install correctly?

neil

 

[awsm]

Hi Neil, thanks for the reply that was the problem. VM Tools now installed & sorted

 

[neilhart]

You could do me a favor and run GeekBench on your virtual machine and compare it to GeekBench score at the OS X host. And share how many cores and how much memory you are allocating to the VM.

edit - and the version of VMWare.

neil

 

[awsm]

VMWare 4.1.1 (536016)

Hackintosh:

VMWare 1 Core 4GB:

 

[neilhart]

Now that is impressive. The VM is running better (faster) then it does on many real Macs.

thank you,
neil

 

[nikstar]

Can you tell me the reason you want to run Lion In Lion?

 

[awsm]

App Development, debugging, troubleshooting in a clean environment etc.

 

[nikstar]

I see. And it could be easier to reinstall or copy it than working on a different partition