Windows 10: VMWare 15.5.6 fixes 1920 X 1080 resolution on Linux VM's

Hi there
On some Linux distros as VM's it's been impossible to get standard 16:9 full HD (1920 X 1080p) video resolution.

Seems to be properly working again now after the latest (VMware) update.

Fedora 32 VM under Host W10 build 331





Cheers
jimbo

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Linux VMs on Windows no 1920 X 1080 resolution (HYPER-V, VMWare,VBOX)

Yes, Linux Mint 19.2 Cinnamon in Hyper-V, following the instructions here:
How To Change the Resolution of an Ubuntu Hyper-V Virtual Machine -- Virtualization Review

 

1920 X 1080 is not on recommended resolution list

my monitor has 1920 X 1080 resolution, but 1920 X 1080 is not on recommended resolution list. how can I get 1920 X 1080 resolution listed?

 

Linux VMs on Windows no 1920 X 1080 resolution (HYPER-V, VMWare,VBOX)

Hi folks

Has anybody got 1920 X 1080 resolution to work on any "Sensible" --i.e commonly used Linux distros as a VM on a Windows Host whether VBOX, VMWare or even HYPER-V is used as the virtualisation software.

Seems the problem is now most Linux modern distros are using Wayland for the "windowing" manager (the X-Server) whereas formerly they were using X11 / XORG. So changing the config of those files won't work or using the XRANDR command also won't work (Wayland doesn't use that).

(Unrelated but a similar problem with the new X-Server system is the inabilty to logon to a full Linux graphical GUI desktop remotely -with X11/XORG there wasn't a problem connecting remotely to a Linux graphical desktop GUI -- now it doesn't work although you might be lucky enough to logon with SSH and run one or two graphical apps starting from the console).

I tried an old distro (CENTOS rel 7 with a very old kernel -- around 4.0 or so) ) which uses XORG and the 1920 X 1080 resolution worked -- but that's a really old distro !!!

Windows VM's are fine on both Linux and Windows hosts using any VM package but VMWare even on a Linux Host running another Linux VM still has problems with 1920 X 1080 resolution.

Any ideas any one !!!

Cheers
jimbo