Unable to get Debian guest full screen on VMware Player 12

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I have installed a Debian 8 guest on VMware Player 12 but I cannot get the Debian screen to fill my whole monitor even in Full Screen mode.

When I set it up, I set screen size to be the same as the host display, and subsequently I have installed open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop on the guest, but still cannot see how to make this happen, or how to use the desktop tools which VMware say are for this purpose.

droseman

Posted 2016-01-16T12:46:42.880

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Answers

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If, after installing open-vm-tools, you still don't get a good resolution, you can do this:

  1. Check your current System Resolution (Host System)

  2. Edit /etc/default/grub (as root)

  3. Uncomment the line GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600 (Your screen resolution here mine was 1920x1080)

  4. Save the file

  5. Execute the command update-grub (as root)

  6. Reboot (shutdown -r now)

Alien Torres

Posted 2016-01-16T12:46:42.880

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If you have X server installed on your guest, you might need the xorg vmware video drivers.

I had to install xf86-video-vmware package on Archlinux guest on ESXi host to get the proper resolutions. On Debian you might have to install the following video driver package

https://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xserver-xorg-video-vmware

Inxsible

Posted 2016-01-16T12:46:42.880

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There are several steps involved, I can get you started...

  1. Search CD in your Debian desktop, eject anything that is mounted there.
  2. In the VMWare Player menus: Player->Manage->Install VMWare Tools.
  3. Copy and Extract the VMWare Tools to another folder.
  4. Read through the ReadMe; it is better to install via Bash (but you are a Debian user, so you know that already).

If you are still having issues, this video can help (it is for Linux Mint, but the idea is the same): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U8mnEg7nEw

will raziano

Posted 2016-01-16T12:46:42.880

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Welcome to the StackExchange sites. Unfortunately, answering by suggesting to read the manual is not considered acceptable here. You ought to make an effort and specify how to install VMWare tools in some detail, and why this helps with the problem at hand. – MariusMatutiae – 2016-07-22T11:11:07.090

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I have encoutered the same problem even having open-vm-tools installed, but I've found a solution. You can try to change the screen resolution in the guest Debian system. By default it is set to 800x600. You should set it to the bigger values, for instance - 1024x768 and more. Hope it will help you to enlarge the screen size.

Valeriy

Posted 2016-01-16T12:46:42.880

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