On 1/2/20 19:50, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 2020-02-01 08:51, Stephen Morris wrote:
Hi Ed, just further to this, you might be right in saying that it could be the vmware driver not properly supporting Wayland. I have a vm with Mageia installed in it, and if I connect to Gnome on Wayland in that vm I get the same issue.
With the location of where the driver is being sourced from, is it likely to be a file supplied by Vmware Tools or is it a file supplied by Fedora?
I don't know anything about VMware Player. But this
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Player-for-Windows/15.0/com.vmware.player.win.using.doc/GUID-FF434E5C-2FEE-48C9-BEAF-943F0536301E.html
suggests the drivers used are supplied by Vmware Tools.
Thanks Ed. I've had a look the url you provided, and that indicates that
the version of Vmware Tools I had installed via the Vmware Player were
not the current version, and that Vmware do not supply the current
version for linux guests, they require the distribution to supply them
which Fedora does via open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop.
When the Vmware tools were originally installed, when the script
detected the server (which was the server shown by inxi) it checked the
initramfs to see if it needed to be rebuilt, and decided that because
there was already a driver for the detected server in the initramfs it
did not need to supply one and hence did not need to rebuild the
initramfs, so the drivers being used are supplied by Fedora. To upgrade
to the latest version of Vmware tools I used the uninstall script from
the original install to remove the original tools, and also used dnf to
remove the lasest version of the tools because they were installed as
well, rebooted the vm, then reinstalled the latest version of the Vmware
tools via dnf.
Having done this, Wayland still scales to the physical window size when
it maximised but it no longer scales to the full resolution, instead of
scaling to 3840x2075 as it did previously, it now scales to 3818x2045 (I
need to recheck the vertical resolution), but the original issue this
thread was raised for is still there.
I have also installed Virtualbox for Windows 10 and done a bit of
playing around in that. The issue this thread was raised for seems to
not occur in Virtualbox, but with the Virtualbox additions installed by
Fedora with the initial Fedora install, Wayland does not scale when the
window is maximised. Also at the moment, shared folders in Virtualbox do
not appear to work correctly. After the initial install I ran a dnf
upgrade which installed a large number of packages (around 700) which
included an updated version of Virtualbox additions, but I'm yet to see
if anything has changed relative to Wayland and shared folders.
One thing I have noticed with this is Vmware only supports grub2 in
legacy mode whereas Virtualbox seems to support grub2 in efi mode, but I
am yet to test out if efi is actually supported.
regards,
Steve
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