OpenSuse TW on VMware Workstation, autoscaling

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Hi, running a fresh OpenSuse TW with lightdm and Xfce on VMware Workstation Pro 25H2u1.
Autoscaling the guest doesn’t work (anymore), eventhough open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop are installed and running.

Then I found

But there seem to be multiple issues.
I can’t run xrandr --auto, it fails due to missing privileges. I got this fixed by a temporary workaround:

COOKIE=$(sudo xxd -p /run/lightdm/root/:0 | tr -d '\n' | grep -oP '(?<=4d49542d4d414749432d434f4f4b49452d31)0010\K[0-9a-f]{32}')
echo "Cookie: $COOKIE"
xauth add :0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 $COOKIE
xrandr --auto

ow I can run xrandr --auto. Is this itself a bug and worth reporting?
But it doesn’t scale anything.

This workaround also fixes running this due to missing privileges:

pkill -f "vmtoolsd -n vmusr"
/usr/bin/vmtoolsd -n vmusr \
  --plugin-path /usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmusr \
  --common-path /usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/plugins/common &

But it does not solve the scaling issue either, which might be caused by the other Broadcom upstream bug.

I tried with and without 3d acceleration.

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Meanwhile I upgraded to recent VMware Workstation pro, no difference.

I tried 3 different Live Linux now:

  • OpenSuse TW Live
  • Ubuntu (Wayland)
  • Linux Mint (Xorg)

Ubuntu and Linux Mint are working fine after installing open-vm-tools-desktop.
OpenSuse TW Live has a black screen after booting, no X visible at all.

Installing an OpenSuse TW from NET iso today, I get the same result. open-vm-tools-desktop was already installed automatically. But scaling does not work. Do we need to compare each single library and version of all 4 solutions? At least the recent Opensuse TW Live should be working in a VMware virtual machine as this might be very common use case.

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Live images are not intended to use as an install medium. Download and use the most recent DVD iso.

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@massimo.b Hi, so what client video drivers can you install from vmware eg QXL?

In the machines that do scale, can you check the output from inxi -GSaz and compare, running Xorg or Wayland, what graphics gpu in use etc.