Greets forum. One of the things I loved about 11.0 was it’s native integration of open-vm-tools which made running 11.0 in a VMware environment more native than any other OS. oS11.0 VMs flourished like rabbits in my environment thanks to this (usually) transparent integration.
Well, I upgraded several of my 11.0 VMs to 11.1 but find now that several of the integration features aren’t working.
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in 11.0 under VM Workstation 6.5.0 I could go to “view -> fit guest now” and the desktop would expand to perfectly fit the available screen space, in 11.1, even though open-vm-tools is installed and running (and so is the vmware-toolbox application), “fit guest now” is grayed out and I’m forced to choose more standard resolutions, none of which are a perfect fit unless I’m running the vm full screen which I almost never do.
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In 11.0, my mouse pointer seamlessly moved from the VM to the host, in 11.1 I’m forced to still ‘release’ the mouse pointer manually to get it to move out of the vm.
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I can’t drag-n-drop files to/from the host/guest.
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Frankly, although open-vm-tools is installed, and says it’s running, the system functions as-if no vm tools are installed at all. About the only thing taht ‘might’ be working is time sync.
I could install vmware’s own tools but I’d like to try to solve this first. Anybody else having these kind of open-vm-tools issues under 11.1, or am I just an odd duck?
I haven’t tried a CLEAN 11.1 install under VM Workstation, maybe I’ll try that while waiting for a reply here to see if perhaps it’s something that didn’t carry over well from the upgrade.