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0009441Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2025-12-15 08:322025-12-16 10:46
Reporterhissox Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status newResolutionopen 
Summary0009441: VMware auto resizing breaks due to missing xserver-xorg-video-vmware
Description

The package xserver-xorg-video-vmware was removed on 11.11.2025: https://pkg.kali.org/pkg/xserver-xorg-video-vmware.

This breaks automatic resizing for netinstaller-based VMs under VMware.
With the package came two files:

  • /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vmware_drv.so (SHA256: 0127c09c686af1504047b59d5e67dac053b6cdde6bf749d82c3e7b5bbcfc9a9b)
  • /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxatracker.so.2 (symlink to 2.5.0) (SHA256: 604b003fc6df50f785d3d48de58be7726e30276408518b00a93ba458acdcca64)

They are responsible for the automatic resizing of the KaliVM in VMware. Since the package is missing, these two files can no longer be installed and automatic resizing fails.

I have posted more details here: https://forums.kali.org/t/vmware-auto-resizing-breaks-due-to-missing-xserver-xorg-video-vmware/14961/1

Please consider keeping this package in the repository.

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arnaudr

arnaudr

2025-12-16 02:32

manager   ~0021025

The package xserver-xorg-video-vmware was automatically removed from Debian testing due to two bugs.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1116332 is likely a false positive.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1112670 is more serious however. The latest version of xserver-xorg-video-vmware (version 13.4.0-2) seems to have issues, since it was rebuilt against latest version of mesa, and it removed support for XA (X acceleration) library. There's a report upstream at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-vmware/-/issues/12. Quoting a vmware dev:

The driver is basically useless without XA and unlikely to work well, if at all.

There's nothing we can do in Kali at this point.
hissox

hissox

2025-12-16 10:46

reporter   ~0021032

Thank you for following up on this.
Looks like we can indeed just wait at this point. I will also make sure to try 2025.4 with Wayland sometime..

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2025-12-15 08:32 hissox New Issue
2025-12-16 02:32 arnaudr Note Added: 0021025
2025-12-16 10:46 hissox Note Added: 0021032