vmware player tools os x 10.10 cant resize screen

You need to specify lsof -p PID grep libresolution where PID is the PID for vmtoolsd running as vmusr.

And, this is the reason why you are missing screen resizing.

No where in this website talks about installation much (kind of difficult when there are so many linux guest flavors) Only vmwares KB documented it and I missed it because I wanted to get into open-vmtools instead of theirs.

Also, this feature is on deprecation path for VMware Tools on Linux.

So, for this feature, the only option seems to be using older version of VMware Tools provided by the host.

Besides, I searched it on the internet without any useful guide.

Going to Ubuntu Settings-Displays-Resolution and changing the resolution manually there does work.

Is it possible to have other than 800x600 display resolution.

Could you please search for Max Resolution in your VMs vmware.log file (can be found in the VMs directory) and let us know what you find.

The trick to find max possible resolution (without looking at log file) is to increase the resolution in smaller steps and the moment if falls back to 800x600 you know you have hit the limit.

You can go back to previous working resolution the moment that happens that way you would be able to get to max possible resolution.

When I turn off multiple monitors the screen resizing stops working.

The screen stays the same size as though it has multiple monitors and the mouse is WAY off in location.

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Downgrading to kernel 4.3.6 works for me beautifully on 1604, as discussed in this issue: 74.

The last entry in the X log shows: Requested framebuffer size 1302x881x32 will not fit in display memory.

I had both open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop already installed and it was still behaving like this (failing to detect the resolution).

I fixed it by running sudo apt-get install --reinstall open-vm-tools.

I found an askubuntu at that suggested adding a line to the systemd config file for the service to change its launch order.

I have a retina display so I have to go change the scaling to 200 after rebooting every time to be able to read anything.

Vmware Player Tools Os X 10.10 Cant Resize Screen