Pause overlay doesn't go away on unpause

[Ahmad Conradi]

I am using Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS as host.

If the Guest has 3d acceleration enabled, the "pause overlay" won't go away, even though the VM itself is unpaused.

If the guest does not use 3d acceleration, this issue does not exist.

Here is a screenshot, the pause overlay is smaller because I paused-and-unpaused the VM during boot where the screen size was still 640×480 (or similar).

[Fred.S]

I first noticed auto-started Ubuntu servers like that, then ran into a 25.04 Desktop that does this.
Can repeat if logs would help..

[Prajakta Malla]

Yes. Ahmad and Fred, please share the logs. That will help to trace the issue.

Regards

[Fred.S]

I spent some time with this issue today and it was easily solved with CTRL+G. 

Something I haven't had to use since maybe VmWare 11 :)

[Ahmad Conradi]

For me, CTRL+G does not help, are you using a linux host? Is 3d Acceleration enabled? AMD GPU? Thanks.

[Ahmad Conradi]

Sorry, I am new to using VMWare and this forum. Am I supposed to just upload the log file here as an attachment? Just this file `/home/user/vmware/<vm>/vmware.log` or anything else? Thank you.

[Shibdas Bandyopadhyay]

1. Can you please take a screenshot by going to VM->capture screen and check if it has the full window?
2. Can you please put this config option mks.enableVulkanPresentation=FALSE and see if that changes anything? Also do a capture screen.

[Ahmad Conradi]

Yes, the screenshot has the full window. No, enableVulkanPresentation=FALSE does not change anything.

When I close the workstation window (+ let the VM run in the background), then reopen the window, it also shows the full window. It's not enough to just switch between different tabs though.

If you need a specific log file, please tell me which one (what path) and how to share, and I will happily do so. Thank you!

[Ian Forbes]

Can you run `xwininfo -tree` and click on the pause overlay then share the results here. This will show the window tree of the overlay, its parent and its children.

[Shibdas Bandyopadhyay]

Thanks for doing the experiments. Are you using X11 or wayland? If you switch the session type to X11 does it make it better?

For the logs, can you please attach vmware.log and mksSandbox.log from VM directory and then UI log from /tmp/vmware-<user_name>/vmware-ui-*.logs

[Ahmad Conradi]

I am using X11, i3wm. I tested this on X11 gnome-shell too, to rule out this being (yet another) i3 bug. Had the exact same issue there. (The screenshot in OP is actually from when I was using gnome-shell). I have uploaded the logs and xwininfo outputs here:

https://send.aurorabilisim.com/download/17972af4179e6b7b/#abuHbM7DyFezb2RlA4xyKw

Thank you for looking into this.