vmware vms with peppermint 8 dont work with open-vm-tools
in a peppermint 8 gnu/linux vmware vm open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop do not work so when installing peppermint 8 into a vmware vm do not use open-vm-tools (the screen never resizes)
use VMware Workstation Player | Manage | Install VMware tools instead and when you run vmware-config-tools.pl say NO to all the questions ESPECIALLY
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