By default, my Ubuntu 14.04 desktop guest running under VMware ESXi has a maximum resolution of 1360×768 when accessed with the Remote Client, which although usable is not great on my MacBook Pro:
In the guest settings for my Ubuntu guest, I have rather limited graphics settings:
I tried bumping up the memory and see if that opens up some additional settings but that didn’t change anything, although for higher resolutions it’s most likely I would need more gpu memory, but that’s not the issue with the limited settings here.
Searching for ‘ESXi linux guest maximum resolution’ I found this article:
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/527747
which suggests to install a ‘desktop’ version of the open-vm-tools:
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop
Let’s try that. After a reboot, now we’ve got higher resolutions! Awesome!
