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I run my Debian 9 on a virtual machine on ESXi 6.5 and accesses it from a thin client using VMRC. I want my screen resolution to be 1920x1080 from boot time, without being dependent on VMware Tools and maximizing the window.

1) I know that I can execute this after starting the GUI:

xrandr --newmode "1920x1080"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync

xrandr --addmode Virtual1 1920x1080

xrandr --output Virtual1 --mode 1920x1080

2) I know that I can configure GRUB in "/etc/default/grub":

GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080x32,1680x1050x32,1600x900x32,1280x800x32,1024x768x32,auto

GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

3) However, pt. 2 only works with 1920x1080, when the hardware version of the virtual machine configured in the vmx file is "10" and not newer/higher:

config.version = "8"

virtualHW.version = "10"

So my solution is to run with the older virtualHW.version, and manually changing from "10" to "13", when I need to edit the virtual machine settings in the VMware Host Client.

I am curious to what the change is, after hardware version 10 and why it is not possible to get the high resolution from boot time. I think the highest I can get on hardware version "13" is 1680x1050 (not 100% sure, but way smaller then 1920x1080).