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Full Screen Mode Crashes Workstation on a Linux Host with Certain Graphics Adapters

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I am running VMware Workstation 5 on a Linux host. My guest operating system is running in VGA mode. When I attempt to enter full screen mode, Workstation crashes with no error message and logs me off of the host operating system. How can I avoid this?

Solution

This problem is seen on host systems using certain Intel and ATI graphics adapters.

You can work around this problem by disabling DRI in your X server.

Alternatively, you can disable DVGA mode for the virtual machine. To do so, open the virtual machine's configuration (.vmx) file and add the following line:

vga.noFullScreen = TRUE

Note: If you add this line to the configuration file, the virtual machine cannot enter VGA full screen mode.

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DVGA; relnotes; 1594; WS500

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  • KB Article: 1594
  • Updated: Aug 14, 2009
  • Products:
    VMware Workstation
  • Product Versions:
    VMware Workstation 5.x (Linux)