Micha and Mac.Pro.User,

Thanks for your feedback and feature requests. We will take them into consideration as we plan future releases of VMware Fusion.

Best,

Pat Lee

Senior Product Manager - Mac Products

VMware

This is true Fusion does not restore a new VM or a suspended VM to full screen. I have this setting in my .vmx for the day Fusion may honor it: gui.fullScreenAtPowerOn = "TRUE"

To solve this problem in the meanwhile, I use UIScripting to automate putting a VM in full screen mode. I have Fusion assigned to a Space, and a VM bundle in my Login Items, and I have a "go to full screen" Applescript applet which puts the VM in full screen in the space. Here's the source:

tell application "VMware Fusion"
activate
end tell

tell application "System Events"
tell process "VMware Fusion"
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item "View"
tell menu "View"
click menu item "Full Screen (Exit Single Window)"
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell