Public bug reported:
Running clean install of 16.4.1 as a VMware Workstation 12 Pro guest.
Install open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop. You get a full scope
of display resolution options and the automatic guest resolution resize
functionality.
If you switch to linux-virtual, there by removing the linux-image-extra
packages, you lose the the automatic resize and are limited to 6
resolutions of 1176x885 or lower.
This suggests that either open-vm-tools-desktop should have a linux-
image-extra dependancy OR the dependent modules needs to be moved into
the main kernel.
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04
$ apt-cache policy open-vm-tools-desktop
open-vm-tools-desktop:
Installed: 2:10.0.7-3227872-2ubuntu1
Candidate: 2:10.0.7-3227872-2ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 2:10.0.7-3227872-2ubuntu1 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: open-vm-tools-desktop 2:10.0.7-3227872-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Jul 30 11:59:16 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-30 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
SourcePackage: open-vm-tools
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial
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automatic display resize and resolution choices depends on linux-
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