VMware monitor not detected

[TheWhamBurglar]

Hello everyone!

As you may have guessed, I have experienced a whole boat load of problems when using Linux Mint 8 Helena on VMware Workstation 7. Specifically, it cannot detect the virtual monitor even with Open VMtools installed. This has resulted in some rather interesting display and rendering errors.

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An ‘lspci’ command listed the virtual hardware and detected no problems.



I have noticed a number of oddities with the login screen. I have circled a number of oddities on the bottom tool bar. Including a button blocking the date and another button to the far left corner.

[remoulder]

The graphics issues are due to screen resolution being incorrect. For issues with vmware drivers, please ask on the vmware forums.

[TheWhamBurglar]

How is 1024x768 the wrong resolution size? I had adjusted it with in Linux Mint. In addition, VMware does not support Open VMtools nor does Linux Mint 8 support VMWare's version of VMtools. Being that this is specific to Linux Mint 8, I am stuck here.

[remoulder]

How is 1024x768 the wrong resolution size?

The logon screen appears to be designed for a fixed resolution, if the screen is at some different resolution the panel doesn't display properly. Not sure if this is a bug or by design. Sorry I hadn't realized there was an open source version of VMtools, the problem you mention could be a bug and you probably need to contact the developers on sourceforge. Any reason you can't use Virtualbox rather than VMware?

[TheWhamBurglar]

I wish I knew what log entries to give the developers of Open VMtoools. Perhaps you can give me a clue?

Normally I would say that I am using VMWare because it has extensive support for Linux and stable virtual hardware but, it would seem that Linux Mint in particular broke support for VMtools and the virtual hardware. I have used Ubuntu and Sayabon Linux before. I figured Mint would live up to what I was told, a better version of Ubuntu. Being that Ubuntu had better support for VMtools open and closed versions, I am rather disappointed.