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ErikA_NL
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‎08-09-2017 02:29 AM

Workstation on Linux 12.5.7 crashes when putting client OS in full-screen

After having found it impossible to get the display scaling working in Workstation on Windows 10, I have installed Linux Mint 18.2 as host OS.

This actually allows the guest OS to do scaling as it should.

But, when I go to 'full-screen' in the (also Linux) client, Workstation crashes.

Strangely, when doing the same in VMWare Player, it works fine..

Installed VMWare Tools, and on the host I installed the nvidia drivers (not that it makes any difference, when using the open-source drivers the crash also occurs)

The hardware is a DELL XPS 15 with 4K screen.

Is this already a known issue? I can post the collected dump info, if that is required.

Thanks

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TracyHuang
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‎08-10-2017 07:22 PM

Thanks for the posting!

Would you please upload the vmware.log and vmcore*.gz and core files, they are all located in the VM directory (you may get info from Help -> About VMware workstation VM location).

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ErikA_NL
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‎09-29-2017 06:36 AM

I am sorry for the delayed response, I was away for a while. However, the issue is still there.

I have isolated the part in vmware.log that seems relevant to this event, this is it:

2017-09-29T15:26:34.674+02:00| vmx| I125: Tools_SetGuestResolution: Sending rpcMsg = Resolution_Set 3840 2160

2017-09-29T15:26:34.729+02:00| vmx| I125: VmdbPipeStreamsOvlError Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF (remote disconnect)

2017-09-29T15:26:34.729+02:00| vmx| I125: VmdbCnxDisconnect: Disconnect: closed pipe for pub cnx '/db/connection/#24/' (-32)

2017-09-29T15:26:34.729+02:00| vmx| I125: SOCKET 12 (178) recv detected client closed connection

2017-09-29T15:26:34.729+02:00| vmx| I125: Vix: [3342 mainDispatch.c:2826]: VMAutomation: Connection Error (4) on connection 4.

2017-09-29T15:26:34.729+02:00| vmx| I125: VmdbDbRemoveCnx: Removing Cnx from Db for '/db/connection/#24/'

2017-09-29T15:26:34.749+02:00| mks| I125: MKS-SWB: Number of MKSWindows changed: 0 rendering MKSWindow(s) of total 0.

2017-09-29T15:28:06.544+02:00| vmx| I125: GuestRpc: Got error for channel 2 connection 14: Remote connection failure

There are no vmcore* files in the VM directory.

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