I'm running an up-to-date CentOS 6 virtual machine in a VMWare player on a Windows box and I cannot set the display resolution to anything higher than 1280x720. Windows shows the screen resolution on this monitor to be 1920x1080. I do have VMWareTools installed although I'm not certain it is installed correctly. How can I tell? It is version 8.8.4-743747.
I'm not sure if this is a CentOS issue or a VMWare issue but I thought I'd start here.
My Xorg.0.log shows this: [ 43.093] (II) LoadModule: "vmware" [ 43.095] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so [ 43.102] (II) Module vmware: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 43.102] compiled for 1.10.4, module version = 11.0.3 [ 43.102] Module class: X.Org Video Driver [ 43.102] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 10.0 [ 43.102] (II) LoadModule: "vmwgfx" [ 43.132] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vmwgfx [ 43.132] (II) UnloadModule: "vmwgfx" [ 43.132] (II) Unloading vmwgfx [ 43.132] (EE) Failed to load module "vmwgfx" (module does not exist, 0) [ 43.133] (EE) vmware: Please ignore the above warnings about not being able to to load module/driver vmwgfx [ 43.133] (II) vmware: Using vmwlegacy driver everything is fine. [ 43.133] (II) LoadModule: "vmwlegacy" [ 43.136] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vmwlegacy [ 43.136] (II) UnloadModule: "vmwlegacy" [ 43.136] (II) Unloading vmwlegacy [ 43.136] (EE) Failed to load module "vmwlegacy" (module does not exist, 0) [ 43.137] (EE) vmware: Unexpected failure while loading the "vmwlegacy" driver. Giving up. [ 43.137] (II) UnloadModule: "vmware" [ 43.137] (II) Unloading vmware [ 43.137] (EE) Failed to load module "vmware" (a required submodule could not be loaded, 136118924)
Is this problem just a mismatch between CentOS and vmwware?
Thanks, Steve
more info:
$ uname -r 2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.i686
but $ ls -d /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/binary/*2.6.32-279* ls: cannot access /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/binary/*2.6.32-279*: No such file or directory
There are bld-2.6.32-24.whatever and bld-2.6.32-28.55-whatever files in /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/binary/
There is a legacy directory under /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source/ and the source directory has a vmwgfx.tar file in it.
# cat /proc/modules | grep vmware vmware_balloon 5811 0 - Live 0x<...>
VMWare Player version 4.04 build 744019