Hi,
I am currently running a custom linux distribution inside VMWare Player. I enabled the vmware graphix kernel module (vmwgfx) and the X11 vmware driver (vmware_drv.so) as well.
When I boot my VM, everything is fine but the display resolution, 1024x768. By looking at the Xorg.0.log, it seems that the vmware driver limit the resolution because of the memory size.
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[3330443.517] (II) vmware(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (insufficient memory for mode)
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By looking at the kernel messages:
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[ 1.297915] [drm] VRAM at 0xe8000000 size is 4096 kiB --------------------------------------------------- 4M
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[ 1.336968] [drm] Initialized vmwgfx 2.9.0 20150810 for 0000:00:0f.0 on minor 0
A quick google tells me that by changing the values:
svga.autodetect = "FALSE"
svga.maxWidth = "3840"
svga.maxHeight = "2160"
svga.vramSize = "33226752"
Should do the trick, but its not. No matter what I put in that config, its always 4M available in the VM.
Anybody observed the same problem ? Any missing configuration ?
Thanks.