Autofit and drag and drops stops working after full screen

[JakobL]

I'm running a debian 8 guest in 12.5.2. Host is Windows 7.

I can repeat this:

After reboot autofit of screen works fine and drag and drop works. If I resize above a certain resolution or goes to full screen mode then both autofit screen and drag and drop is not working anymore.

Nothing in the open-vmtools logs.

It used to work fine some week ago. I have done two things lately, upgraded to 12.5.2 from 12.5.x and resized the guest disk.

Any ideas?

[JakobL]

I checked the logs:

With these settings in .vmx:
svga.autodetect = "FALSE"
svga.vramSize = "134217728"
svga.maxWidth = "3840"
svga.maxHeight = "2160"

I get htis  in vmware.log:

2016-12-08T15:22:12.667+01:00| vmx| I125: SVGA-GFB: Initial gfbSize=4194304
2016-12-08T15:22:12.667+01:00| vmx| I125: SVGA: Number of displays 1
2016-12-08T15:22:12.667+01:00| vmx| I125: SVGA: Maximum display topology 3840x2160.
2016-12-08T15:22:12.667+01:00| vmx| I125: SVGA: Truncated maximum resolution to VRAM size: 4194304 bytes VRAM, 1176x885 Max Resolution

And later in vmware.log after I increase the guest window size:
(After this no working drag and drop or autofit)

2016-12-08T15:29:02.505+01:00| vmx| I125: Tools_SetGuestResolution: Sending rpcMsg = Resolution_Set 1916 958
2016-12-08T15:29:02.505+01:00| vmx| I125: Tools_SetGuestResolution: Sending rpcMsg = Resolution_Set 1916 958
2016-12-08T15:29:10.881+01:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox-dnd timed out.
2016-12-08T15:29:17.851+01:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox-dnd timed out.
2016-12-08T15:29:32.854+01:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox-dnd timed out.
2016-12-08T15:29:47.856+01:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox-dnd timed out.
2016-12-08T15:30:02.516+01:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox-dnd timed out.
2016-12-08T15:30:02.516+01:00| vmx| W115: TOOLS Resolution_Set failed: failure of the transport layer
2016-12-08T15:30:02.516+01:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox-dnd timed out.
2016-12-08T15:30:02.865+01:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpcSendTimedOut: message to toolbox-dnd timed out.

With settings for  Auto in .vmx:
svga.autodetect = "TRUE"
svga.vramSize = "134217728"
svga.maxWidth = "3840"
svga.maxHeight = "2160"

I get about the same log:

2016-12-08T15:38:20.594+01:00| vmx| I125: SVGA: Maximum display topology 5846x1920.
2016-12-08T15:38:20.594+01:00| vmx| I125: Ignoring svga.vramSize value in config file because svga.autoDetect is enabled.
2016-12-08T15:38:20.595+01:00| vmx| I125: SVGA-GFB: Initial gfbSize=4194304
2016-12-08T15:38:20.595+01:00| vmx| I125: SVGA: Maximum display topology 5846x1920.
2016-12-08T15:38:20.595+01:00| vmx| I125: SVGA: Number of displays 3
2016-12-08T15:38:20.595+01:00| vmx| I125: SVGA: Maximum display topology 5846x1920.
2016-12-08T15:38:20.595+01:00| vmx| I125: SVGA: Truncated maximum resolution to VRAM size: 4194304 bytes VRAM, 1176x885 Max Resolution

[JakobL · Accepted solution]

OK, I fixed it.

I created a new guest wich worked fine.

I compared the .vmx files and it was a lot of differences.

I ended up removing all svga.* entries and changed the vmotion.checkpointFBSize  to "33554432".

After that it is working fine again.

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