I'm unable to reproduce this. With either Unity or XFCE desktop, resizing the VMWare Player window works okay for me. I'm using the same 3.13.0-30.55 kernel (on both host and guest), but my VMware Player is newer: "6.0.3 build-1895310".
Daniel, please update your VMWare Player to that version and check whether the problem persists.
That said, I notice this commit, recently added to mainline, which modifies the patch you identified as the problem (2a4faaba in trusty):
I'm unable to reproduce this. With either Unity or XFCE desktop, resizing the VMWare Player window works okay for me. I'm using the same 3.13.0-30.55 kernel (on both host and guest), but my VMware Player is newer: "6.0.3 build-1895310".
Daniel, please update your VMWare Player to that version and check whether the problem persists.
That said, I notice this commit, recently added to mainline, which modifies the patch you identified as the problem (2a4faaba in trusty):
(mainline) 4e57808 drm/vmwgfx: Fix incorrect write to read-only register v2: kernel. ubuntu. com/git? p=ubuntu/ linux.git; a=commitdiff; h=4e578080
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Daniel, can you try applying that (along with the problem 2a4faaba commit)... Does that fix it?