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More Virtual Machines

2009-08-19 by Allen Weiss

Thanks for the earlier heads up on calibrating a virtual Windows machine on a Mac. So I tried today with Spyder 3 Elite 3.1.1 and I got a message saying "Sorry, unable to determine configuation of attached monitors. Please update the video card driver software to the current version and try again." Then it exits with "No monitors found..." I'm using VMWare to virtualize and Win7 RC. I understand that the Spyder software hasn't been reupped yet for Win7, but I suspect that's not the problem because when I check the display settings in Win7 it says the display adapter is VMWare SVGAII. So I guess that the software doesn't understand virtual display adapters which is understandable. Is there any way around this? Thanks.

Re: [datacolor_group] More Virtual Machines

2009-08-19 by CDTobie


Thanks for the earlier heads up on calibrating a virtual Windows machine on a 
Mac. So I tried today with Spyder 3 Elite 3.1.1 and I got a message saying 
"Sorry, unable to determine configuation of attached monitors. Please update the 
video card driver software to the current version and try again." Then it exits 
with "No monitors found..." I'm using VMWare to virtualize and Win7 RC. I 
understand that the Spyder software hasn't been reupped yet for Win7, but I 
suspect that's not the problem because when I check the display settings in Win7 
it says the display adapter is VMWare SVGAII. So I guess that the software 
doesn't understand virtual display adapters which is understandable. Is there 
any way around this? Thanks.
Haven't tried VMWare. Its all a matter of how they go about configuring their video card and display components. All we can do is run standard OS calls, and take what that returns to us. Which seems to work fine for Parellels. We have been testing Win7 (real, not emulated) and haven't been finding any issues, so I suspect its not Win7, but VMWare thats causing the snag, but thats just speculation.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
Datacolor
CDTobie@...
www.datacolor.com/Spyder3


-----Original Message-----
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From: Allen Weiss
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Sent: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 11:50 am
Subject: [datacolor_group] More Virtual Machines

Thanks for the earlier heads up on calibrating a virtual Windows machine on a 
Mac. So I tried today with Spyder 3 Elite 3.1.1 and I got a message saying 
"Sorry, unable to determine configuation of attached monitors. Please update the 
video card driver software to the current version and try again." Then it exits 
with "No monitors found..." I'm using VMWare to virtualize and Win7 RC. I 
understand that the Spyder software hasn't been reupped yet for Win7, but I 
suspect that's not the problem because when I check the display settings in Win7 
it says the display adapter is VMWare SVGAII. So I guess that the software 
doesn't understand virtual display adapters which is understandable. Is there 
any way around this? Thanks.



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Re: More Virtual Machines

2009-08-23 by ajweiss1

Thanks David. I'll take it up over in the VMWare communities.

--- In datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie <CDTobie@...> wrote:
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> Thanks for the earlier heads up on calibrating a virtual Windows machine on a 
> Mac. So I tried today with Spyder 3 Elite 3.1.1 and I got a message saying 
> "Sorry, unable to determine configuation of attached monitors. Please update the 
> video card driver software to the current version and try again." Then it exits 
> with "No monitors found..." I'm using VMWare to virtualize and Win7 RC. I 
> understand that the Spyder software hasn't been reupped yet for Win7, but I 
> suspect that's not the problem because when I check the display settings in Win7 
> it says the display adapter is VMWare SVGAII. So I guess that the software 
> doesn't understand virtual display adapters which is understandable. Is there 
> any way around this? Thanks.
> 
> Haven't tried VMWare. Its all a matter of how they go about configuring their video card and display components. All we can do is run standard OS calls, and take what that returns to us. Which seems to work fine for Parellels. We have been testing Win7 (real, not emulated) and haven't been finding any issues, so I suspect its not Win7, but VMWare thats causing the snag, but thats just speculation.
> 
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Global Product Technology Manager
> Digital Imaging & Home Theater
> Datacolor
> CDTobie@...
> www.datacolor.com/Spyder3
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Weiss <ajweiss1@...>
> To: datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 11:50 am
> Subject: [datacolor_group] More Virtual Machines
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> Thanks for the earlier heads up on calibrating a virtual Windows machine on a 
> Mac. So I tried today with Spyder 3 Elite 3.1.1 and I got a message saying 
> "Sorry, unable to determine configuation of attached monitors. Please update the 
> video card driver software to the current version and try again." Then it exits 
> with "No monitors found..." I'm using VMWare to virtualize and Win7 RC. I 
> understand that the Spyder software hasn't been reupped yet for Win7, but I 
> suspect that's not the problem because when I check the display settings in Win7 
> it says the display adapter is VMWare SVGAII. So I guess that the software 
> doesn't understand virtual display adapters which is understandable. Is there 
> any way around this? Thanks.
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