I have Ubuntu 12.04 running as a guest in vmware player 6.0.1 build-1379776. The host OS is Windows 7. Starting this week, whenever I resize the vmware player window by dragging an edge or corner, it always resizes to size 320x200 (a tiny, unusable rectangle). I can still maximize the window, and the guest Ubuntu desktop resizes accordingly. But I cannot set the window to anything other than 320x200, unless I maximize it.
Here are my vmware.log entries when I try to resize by dragging, and then maximize:
2013-12-18T11:57:53.920-05:00| vmx| I120: Tools_SetGuestResolution: Sending rpcMsg = Resolution_Set 320 200
2013-12-18T11:57:57.008-05:00| vmx| I120: Tools_SetGuestResolution: Sending rpcMsg = Resolution_Set 1319 796
2013-12-18T11:57:57.128-05:00| vmx| I120: Tools_SetGuestResolution: Sending rpcMsg = Resolution_Set 320 200
2013-12-18T11:57:59.830-05:00| vmx| I120: Tools_SetGuestResolution: Sending rpcMsg = Resolution_Set 1920 982
I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 on vmware player for a little over a year now, and upgraded to player 6.0.1 a month ago. I first saw this problem this week. I tried reverting to an older virtual machine I had saved (a base ubuntu 12.04 installation) that I created last year, and the problem still exists.
Has anyone else seen this behavior? Does anyone know what the problem is, or how to resolve it?