Display scaling issue with VMware tools in NixOS

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I have installed VMware tools in my NixOS virtual machine but I am experiencing display scaling issues. I have set virtualisation.vmware.guest.enable = true; in my configuration.nix file and rebuilt my system configuration, but the issue persists.

[root@nixos:~]# cat /etc/nixos/configuration.nix 
# Edit this configuration file to define what should be installed on
# your system.  Help is available in the configuration.nix(5) man page
# and in the NixOS manual (accessible by running ‘nixos-help’).

{
  imports =
    [ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
      ./hardware-configuration.nix
    ];

  # Use the GRUB 2 boot loader.
  boot.loader.grub.enable = true;
  boot.loader.grub.version = 2;

  boot.loader.grub.device = "/dev/sda";

  # networking.hostName = "nixos"; # Define your hostname.
  # Pick only one of the below networking options.
  # networking.wireless.enable = true;  # Enables wireless support via wpa_supplicant.
  # networking.networkmanager.enable = true;  # Easiest to use and most distros use this by default.
  networking.hostName = "nixos";
  networking.networkmanager.enable = true;

  # Set your time zone.
  time.timeZone = "Asia/Shanghai";

  # Configure network proxy if necessary
  # networking.proxy.default = "http://user:password@proxy:port/";
  # networking.proxy.noProxy = "127.0.0.1,localhost,internal.domain";

  # Select internationalisation properties.
  i18n.defaultLocale = "en_US.UTF-8";
  console = {
    font = "Lat2-Terminus16";
    #keyMap = "us";
    useXkbConfig = true; # use xkbOptions in tty.
  };

  # Enable the X11 windowing system.
  services.xserver.enable = true;


  # Enable the GNOME Desktop Environment.
  services.xserver.displayManager.gdm.enable = true;
  services.xserver.desktopManager.gnome.enable = true;
  

  # Configure keymap in X11
  services.xserver.layout = "us";
  # services.xserver.xkbOptions = {
  #   "eurosign:e";
  #   "caps:escape" # map caps to escape.
  # };

  # Enable CUPS to print documents.
  # services.printing.enable = true;

  # Enable sound.
  sound.enable = true;
  # hardware.pulseaudio.enable = true;

  # Enable touchpad support (enabled default in most desktopManager).
  # services.xserver.libinput.enable = true;

  # Define a user account. Don't forget to set a password with ‘passwd’.
  # users.users.alice = {
  #   isNormalUser = true;
  #   extraGroups = [ "wheel" ]; # Enable ‘sudo’ for the user.
  #   packages = with pkgs; [
  #     firefox
  #     thunderbird
  #   ];
  # };

  # List packages installed in system profile. To search, run:
  # $ nix search wget
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    vim # Do not forget to add an editor to edit configuration.nix! The Nano editor is also installed by default.
    wget
    neofetch
    openssh
    bash-completion
    rxvt-unicode
    alacritty
    parted
  ];


  # Some programs need SUID wrappers, can be configured further or are
  # started in user sessions.
  # programs.mtr.enable = true;
  # programs.gnupg.agent = {
  #   enable = true;
  #   enableSSHSupport = true;
  # };

  # List services that you want to enable:
  virtualisation.vmware.guest.enable = true;
  nix.settings.substituters = [ "https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/nix-channels/store" ];

  # Enable the OpenSSH daemon.
  # services.openssh.enable = true;

  # Open ports in the firewall.
  # networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ ... ];
  # networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ ... ];
  # Or disable the firewall altogether.
  networking.firewall.enable = false;

  # Copy the NixOS configuration file and link it from the resulting system
  # (/run/current-system/configuration.nix). This is useful in case you
  # accidentally delete configuration.nix.
  # system.copySystemConfiguration = true;

  # This value determines the NixOS release from which the default
  # settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions
  # on your system were taken. It‘s perfectly fine and recommended to leave
  # this value at the release version of the first install of this system.
  # Before changing this value read the documentation for this option
  # (e.g. man configuration.nix or on https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html).
  system.stateVersion = "22.11"; # Did you read the comment?
}

After rebuilding NixOS with the virtualisation.vmware.guest.enable = true; setting in my configuration.nix file, the display scaling of NixOS changed. However, the clipboard was not shared. After I restarted the virtual machine, the clipboard could be shared, but the display scaling of NixOS was no longer adaptive.

I checked the mware-vmsvc-root.log and found the following error message:

[2023-05-06T03:13:06.068Z] [ message] [vmtoolsd] [2154] Plugin 'resolutionKMS' initialized.
[2023-05-06T03:19:58.959Z] [ message] [resolutionCommon] [930] resolutionCheckForKMS: dlopen succeeded.
[2023-05-06T03:19:58.974Z] [ warning] [resolutionCommon] [930] resolutionCheckForKMS: No system support for resolutionKMS.

This indicates that my system does not support the resolutionKMS plugin. I would like to know how to resolve this issue so that VMware tools can properly adjust the screen resolution.

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