Issues

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

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#806 · Filter by author eric-eisenhart opened on Sep 8, 2026
  1

• 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

  vmware/open-vm-tools#805 · Filter by author kevincasier opened on Sep 7, 2026
  1

• GTK4 drag detection window steals focus and swallows input on Wayland/KDE

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#804 · Filter by author Zoxc opened on Sep 6, 2026
  1

• Scaling not working in x11 based Linux distros

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#803 · Filter by author Massimo-B opened on Aug 28, 2026
  5

• Guest-to-host clipboard fails for any non-ASCII text (dndcp GTK4: size() used as byte length)

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#800 · Filter by author pwn2ooown opened on Aug 21, 2026
  2

• vmwgfxctrl not working to change resolution in Ubuntu 26.04 guest

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#797 · Filter by author davewuk opened on Aug 3, 2026
  1

• Fails to build with openssl 4.0

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#794 · Filter by author yselkowitz opened on Jun 19, 2026
  2

• [Wayland] Broken clipboard and drag-and-drop in VMware guests using open-vm-tools

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#792 · Filter by author 0Ky opened on May 19, 2026
  21

• VGAuth: SAML tokens without time-bound elements are accepted indefinitely

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#791 · Filter by author aleister1102 opened on May 14, 2026
  1

• [RFE] open-vmware-tools lacks features that VMWare tools has

  enhancement
  vmware/open-vm-tools#789 · Filter by author kelwhite opened on May 4, 2026
  1

• Copy / Past does not work between host and guest VMs while Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is the host OS

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#788 · Filter by author RS17286 opened on Apr 28, 2026
  5

• vmtoolsd.service leaves tmp dir behind

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#786 · Filter by author dulili opened on Feb 3, 2026
  1

• [RFE] - Ability to see FQDN under "DNS Name" in ESXi

  enhancement
  vmware/open-vm-tools#785 · Filter by author dulili opened on Feb 3, 2026
  1

• vmware-user-suid-wrapper creates dconf files with root ownership in MATE desktop environment, causing permission denied errors

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#784 · Filter by author con-english opened on Jan 27, 2026
  5

• Build against glibc-2.43 fails due to -Werror=discarded-qualifiers

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#782 · Filter by author heitbaum opened on Jan 25, 2026
  8

• Completion of error handling

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#781 · Filter by author elfring opened on Jan 5, 2026

• Add resolution scaling support for Fedora ARM guests in VMware Fusion on Apple Silicon

  enhancement
  vmware/open-vm-tools#780 · Filter by author timholm opened on Dec 7, 2025
  1

• open-vm-tools 12.5.4 configure: line 23752: enable_vgauth: command not found

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#778 · Filter by author ggg-315 opened on Nov 18, 2025
  1

• Copy and paste file fails on Debian Linux guest from Windows 11 host

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#777 · Filter by author ward-horsfall opened on Oct 24, 2025
  4

• open-vm-tools 2:12.5.0-2 amd64 [installed] Clobbers DNS Configuration

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#775 · Filter by author WhatImListnTo opened on Oct 4, 2025
  11

• Compile Error in lib/err/errPosix.c: assignment to 'char *' from 'int'

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#770 · Filter by author smogm opened on Jul 30, 2025
  3

• Ubuntu is not responsive in vmware workstation pro with open-vm-tools installed

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#769 · Filter by author sagisar1 opened on Jul 14, 2025
  1

• Make GetCloudinitStatus() more robust

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#768 · Filter by author ani-sinha opened on Jul 3, 2025
  11

• 'configure: error: mspack >= 0.0.20040308alpha is required' error when using ubuntu 25.04 in vmware 17

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#767 · Filter by author anmac1789 opened on Jun 8, 2025
  1

• ISBRendererComm: Lost connection to mksSandbox (3796)

  bug
  vmware/open-vm-tools#766 · Filter by author RoyalXXX opened on Jun 3, 2025
  2