On 4/2/20 12:12, Stephen Morris wrote:
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.
I tried Virtualbox with vm's for every version of Fedora from F29 to F31
and internet access fails in every version. The network gets an IP
Address from DHCP and Firefox can access http://www.google.com.au and
return results for google searches, but it cannot access the default
home page of https://start.fedoraproject.org, nor can dnf refresh any of
its repositories. It also doesn't matter what network setting I specify
in the VM settings the same thing happens on every one of them. I'm not
sure at the moment what the issue is.
regards,
Steve
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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