Ubuntu – Ubuntu 15.10: multiple monitors do not work within VMware

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I have upgraded Ubuntu 15.04 to Ubuntu 15.10. Since then, I cannot use two monitors. Ubuntu runs as a guest OS in VMware.

I get the error message that the VMware tools need to be installed. I've reinstalled the VMWare tools but that does not help.

Has anybody solved this issue ? Thanks

Best Answer

I have had the same issue, but solved it by removing the vmware-tools, and installing open-vm-tools:

sudo vmware-uninstall-tools.pl
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop

and then rebooting. Hope that helps.