Open vmware tools resolution

Only thing I had to do was blacklist the piix4-smbus module to eliminate the smbus error on boot. No idea what's different between the 2 systems that it won't allow resizing. Once I changed these settings, I was able to resize properly. Got this issue when my kernel upgraded to 5. Rolling back to 4. I just encountered the same issue, it went away by restarting the service one time manually and rebooting the VM.

Edit the systemd unit file directly will not survive an update of open-vm-tools package if any. Instead, use the recommanded way provided by systemd to create an override configuration file. After a clean install on I recently upgraded to Now it works for me too! I immediately noticed the ballooning was active host memory usage much lower. And everything else that I tried video res changes, copy-pasta works too but there are some weird errors logged:.

Don't worry about that; its showing a successful operation where something probably the WS UI is just checking the state of Tools. I was struggling with this on When I was reinstalling after messing with everything on this page, I selected to install third-party software during install and now it works perfectly right out the box.

Hope this helps someone! I encountered something similar with Ubuntu Desktop Just increasing the available video memory from 4MiB to 16MiB did the trick. It does not kick in immediately after boot. A cycle of enter-exit fullscreen is needed. Skip to content. Star 1. New issue. Jump to bottom. Ubuntu Copy link. I am running Ubuntu That seems to fix it for me. Thank you. Yes, fixed. Yes, that's works! Here is how to fix it Restarting the service and editing it haven't resolved this issue for me.

The screen should be able to fit as needed. Non works!!! Not working on I may do a fresh install of What are your display settings configured as in VMWare? I don't have a screen like that anywhere I can find. I'm on VMWare 6. If using vmware-tools, do systemctl restart vmware-tools. I have uninstalled openvm tools, and installed VmWare ones, same thing And I am on How i fixed my issue: Reinstall tools by titan guide in my VM. Apply ManuelBerrueta config fix.

Boot from new VM. Full screen mode is working now. Even after reboot new VM. So basically there's no fixing an existing install at this point you just have to create a new VM. I knew the current packages work fine with a new install because I already did a new install of I'm done fooling with the broken Kept it around to test possible fixes for the community but I don't think there's a point now. Create new Virtual Machine with the same system configuration 5.

Below mentioned issues can be solved easily with the steps mentioned in this tutorial. If you have ever worked in VMware, you must be knowing the importance of VMware tools. These tools are really important for the guest operating system. Because it helps to improve the functionality and management of Virtual machine. If VMware tools are not installed, you will get " Bash: VMware-toolbox-cmd: command not found " error. Once you will check VMware version, it will ask you to install it, if it's not there already as shown in image.

In case you are not getting the option to install the " open-vm-tools " package automatically. You can install it using the dnf or yum command.

Once installation completes. Run VMware-toolbox-cmd again to check VMware tools version. As you can see in the output, I have VMware tools version Then move further to step4 in this post. In many cases, monitor size is set up manual. Manually specifying the Number and Size of the monitor may prevent unity and full-screen modes from working correctly. If option 2 is selected as shown in the image. Then it's time to select " use host settings for monitors".

But how to change it? Options are greyed out. If Virtual machine is already running, then you will see these options as greyed out.