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Melab
Asked: 2016-02-20 18:09:04 +0800 CST

open-vm-tools doesn't resize display

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I am running Ubuntu 15.10 in VMware Workstation 12 Player on Windows 7. Since VMware has stopped updating VMware Tools or something, I have to use open-vm-tools. Unfortunately, it doesn't resize the display. My installation is something of a mess because I've been toying around with the GitHub release, had some problems removing VMware Tools resulting in a partial install, and installed from source code meaning I can't likewise uninstall.

How can I get open-vm-tools to work and properly resize the display?

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1 Answers

  1. You need to install open-vm-tools-desktop, just open-vm-tools is for console only VMs.

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