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Official repository of VMware open-vm-tools project

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Last GitHub push: May 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 21, 2026
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271 open issues indexed

FreeBSD: guest NicInfo reports wrong prefix length for IPv4 alias addresses (libdnet bug, link) Open

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vmware/open-vm-tools#806 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Wayland: vmusr's X11 resolutionSet plugin claims resolution_server over vmsvc's resolutionKMS, breaking multi-monitor; plus screen positions not re-announced after DRM_VMW_UPDATE_LAYOUT Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#805 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 7, 2026
GTK4 drag detection window steals focus and swallows input on Wayland/KDE Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#804 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 6, 2026
Scaling not working in x11 based Linux distros Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#803 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Guest-to-host clipboard fails for any non-ASCII text (dndcp GTK4: size() used as byte length) Open

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vmware/open-vm-tools#800 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2026
vmwgfxctrl not working to change resolution in Ubuntu 26.04 guest Open

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vmware/open-vm-tools#797 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Fails to build with openssl 4.0 Open

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vmware/open-vm-tools#794 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 19, 2026
[Wayland] Broken clipboard and drag-and-drop in VMware guests using open-vm-tools Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#792 · 12 comments · 17 reactions · Opened May 19, 2026
VGAuth: SAML tokens without time-bound elements are accepted indefinitely Open

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vmware/open-vm-tools#791 · 1 comment · Opened May 14, 2026
[RFE] open-vmware-tools lacks features that VMWare tools has Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#789 · 1 comment · Opened May 4, 2026
Copy / Past does not work between host and guest VMs while Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is the host OS Open

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vmware/open-vm-tools#788 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 28, 2026
vmtoolsd.service leaves tmp dir behind Open

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vmware/open-vm-tools#786 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 3, 2026
[RFE] - Ability to see FQDN under "DNS Name" in ESXi Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#785 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 3, 2026
vmware-user-suid-wrapper creates dconf files with root ownership in MATE desktop environment, causing permission denied errors Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#784 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 27, 2026
Build against glibc-2.43 fails due to -Werror=discarded-qualifiers Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#782 · 8 comments · Opened Jan 25, 2026
Completion of error handling Open

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vmware/open-vm-tools#781 · Opened Jan 5, 2026
Add resolution scaling support for Fedora ARM guests in VMware Fusion on Apple Silicon Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#780 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 7, 2025
open-vm-tools 12.5.4 configure: line 23752: enable_vgauth: command not found Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#778 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 18, 2025
Copy and paste file fails on Debian Linux guest from Windows 11 host Open

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vmware/open-vm-tools#777 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 24, 2025
open-vm-tools 2:12.5.0-2 amd64 [installed] Clobbers DNS Configuration Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#775 · 11 comments · Opened Oct 4, 2025
Compile Error in lib/err/errPosix.c: assignment to 'char *' from 'int' Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#770 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2025
Ubuntu is not responsive in vmware workstation pro with open-vm-tools installed Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#769 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 14, 2025
Make GetCloudinitStatus() more robust Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#768 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 3, 2025
'configure: error: mspack >= 0.0.20040308alpha is required' error when using ubuntu 25.04 in vmware 17 Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#767 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 8, 2025
ISBRendererComm: Lost connection to mksSandbox (3796) Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#766 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 3, 2025
Limit resolution 1176x885 FreeBSD 14.20 + Gnome on VMware Workstation 17.6.3 Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#764 · 1 comment · Opened May 18, 2025
Inline comment breaks "disable_vmware_customization" check Open

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vmware/open-vm-tools#763 · 3 comments · Opened May 7, 2025
VM root window resize failure - Fedora 42 KDE, X11 Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#762 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 28, 2025
toolsDeployPkg.log: Customization command failed with exitcode: 127, stderr: '' on Ubuntu Cloud image - 20250403 Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#761 · 12 comments · Opened Apr 25, 2025
Vmware is not installed Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 10/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#760 · Opened Mar 19, 2025
ubuntu-22.04 esxi8.0 Crash exception Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#759 · Opened Feb 24, 2025
Discourage installing open-vm-tools on Linux hosts Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#757 · Opened Jan 29, 2025
VMWare Esxi 6.5.0 and Ubuntu 24.04 web console Black screen Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#756 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2025
DnD from/on virtual Ubuntu running by MacOS Fusion Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#755 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 25, 2024
With 3D Acceleration enabled: context mismatch in svga_surface_destroy Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#754 · Opened Dec 19, 2024
network suspend/resume script misconfigures docker interfaces Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#753 · Opened Dec 14, 2024
VMWare Workstation 17.6.1 :: Problems hidding top bar Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#752 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 4, 2024
configure script no longer honors exclusions Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#747 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 24, 2024
Unable to Upgrade to Latest version of VMTools in Linux VM Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#746 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 23, 2024
Vmvare Workstation Pro issue Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#743 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 12, 2024
NICs being configured twice on Rocky Linux 9 Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#742 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 2, 2024
Multi monitor layout show only single window with scroll bars and mouse pointer location is offset Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#741 · 11 comments · Opened Oct 1, 2024
async clipboard when using RDP Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#740 · 14 comments · Opened Oct 1, 2024
Salt minion deployed by open-vm-tools creates broken minion configuration from guestinfo./vmware.components.salt_minion.args Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#739 · 8 comments · Opened Oct 1, 2024
Remove Make reliance on libffi.la Open

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vmware/open-vm-tools#737 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2024
IP address of VIP is not reported Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#736 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 29, 2024
vmrun executable not found - Ubuntu 22 Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#735 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2024
Any way to retrieve the vc.uuid from vmtools ? Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#734 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2024
VirtualPS/2 mouse not being presented Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#729 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 25, 2024
vmware tools fail in Ubuntu 24.04 cloud image because `hwclock` doesn't exist Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

vmware/open-vm-tools#727 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 23, 2024

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