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Bug 1426684 - [ESXi][RHEL 7]vmware driver is not able to recognize the second monitor
Summary: [ESXi][RHEL 7]vmware driver is not able to recognize the second monitor
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: xorg-x11-drv-vmware
Version: 7.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 1420851
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-02-24 15:26 UTC by Ajinkya Patil
Modified: 2021-09-09 12:09 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-08-28 07:00:45 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 1320480 0 medium CLOSED Multihead support in vmware 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

Internal Links: 1320480

Description Ajinkya Patil 2017-02-24 15:26:54 UTC 
Description of problem:
vmware driver is not able to recognize the second monitor

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add 2 displays in for RHL7 vm on  vsphere 5.5
2. set the video memory using video memory calculator
3. check the system.

Actual results:
RHEL will show only 1 monitor, however, 2 displays are specified in hardware settings

Expected results:
RHEL should show 2 monitors connected to it.

Additional info:
Comment 2 Tomas Pelka 2017-02-24 19:31:58 UTC 
Most probably dup of bz1320480
Comment 3 Bo Yang 2017-08-04 05:22:57 UTC 
WW31.4 Update:

Verified this issue in ESXi5.5 with RHEL7

ENV:
Host: ESXi5.5
Guest: RHEL7.3
xorg-x11-drv-vmware: 13.0.2-7
VMWGFX: 2.10.0.0

Steps:
1. Connected two display to Guest
2. Set "Number of displays" to 2
3. Set "Total video memory" to 128
4. Boot Guest

Results:
1. After step 4:
a. RHEL7 "Virtual Machine Console" can detect display-1
b. Drag "Virtual Machine Console" to display-2, that was ok
c. Full Screen "Virtual Machine Console" in diplay-2, lead to "Virtual Machine Console" becoming full screen in display-1, and the "Virtual Machine Console" in display-2 still was the original size, mouse / keyboard didn't work

@Ajinkya
Need your help to confirm above steps were oK to reproduce your issue?

Thanks
Comment 5 Bo Yang 2017-09-20 11:31:46 UTC 
WW38.3 Update:

Any update? 
Need your confirmation / info for above steps.

Thanks a loooot firstly.
Comment 6 Ajinkya Patil 2017-10-27 13:22:03 UTC 
Greetings,

Sorry for the delay. Customer closed the case and it took time to get the data from the customer.

Yes, these steps are sufficient.
Comment 7 Ajinkya Patil 2018-01-03 12:28:36 UTC 
Greetings,

Do we have any update on the bug?
Comment 8 Deepak Rawat 2018-01-11 01:31:00 UTC 
Hi All,

Thanks for reporting this bug. I will file internal bug to track this issue. Will update this bug accordingly.

Thanks
Comment 9 Thomas Hellström 2018-01-11 12:35:11 UTC 
Vmware does not support multiple monitors on vSphere consoles with Linux guests. I don't think it's supported on other guests either.

/Thomas
Comment 10 Yaju Cao 2018-01-12 05:56:00 UTC 
(In reply to Thomas Hellström from comment #9)
> Vmware does not support multiple monitors on vSphere consoles with Linux
> guests. I don't think it's supported on other guests either.
> 
> /Thomas

Thanks for your information! Is there a kb on VMware website?
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