Screen resolution of VMware WS 12.5.2 guest on MSI GE72VR and Windows 10 Pro 64.

[Dumby]

Hello,

I've installed VMware 12.5.2 on my new laptop MSI GE72VR 6RF-294XTN Apache Pro (i7-6700HQ - GTX 1080 - 8 Gb. DDR4 - SSD PCIE2 256 Gb. - SSD SATA3 2 Tb. - 17.3 FHD - Windows 10 Pro 64).

When I try to make my Linux guest to enter in full screen, the original screen resolution of the guest (1280x800) isn't set to the resolution of the host (1920 x 1080)!

The guest screen setting are set with 3D acceleration enabled, use host setting for monitor and 1 Gb. of graphic memory and the Windows 10 Pro 64 host screen resolution is the native 1920x1080.

What should I do to make it work again (this worked perfectly with previous VMware Workstation releases)?

Thanks In Advance.

[tracywang]

Thanks for using Workstation. Could you try to reinstall your VMware Tools? Thanks.

[louyo]

I have a couple of Linux VM's that do that. I open a terminal session and run vmware-user. On one of them, I have to do it twice... it takes a few seconds to go full screen.

Lou

[Dumby]

Hi Tonyw23 and louyo,

Thanks for your responses.

However,I found and solved the problem: :smileycool:

Since few releases, when installing the VMware Tools, it's recommanded to install the Open-VM tools from the distribution repositories! :smileyblush:

So, that's what I did... and that's why I got the problem.:smileydevil:

Then, I just uninstalled these crippled code and installed the real VMware Tolls from the virtual CD, did the usual vmware-user command and all was corrected! :smileygrin:

So, why VMware promotes such a dumb solution when its own works perfectly? :smileyconfused:

Happy new year.