Update This seems to currently affect only 13.2 now (have not checked 13.1 since EOL is months away). Does not affect current LEAP and TW. Full report I made is at https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches/issues/96 But it's looking more likely that this is an openSUSE 13.2 specific issue, perhaps related to how the kernel is compiled which may be different than how the LEAP and TW kernels are compiled. Of particular note and perhaps very relevant is that although the newest released Tools patch is reported installed successfully, querying for installed version says that the old patch is still installed. I also wonder if this may be related to recently reported similar Guest autofit problems reported in Virtualbox which seems to have begun approx the same time (only a coincidence or could be relevant?)