VMWARE Player 12 shall scale lower Resolution Guest to full screen

[MarkusK80]

Hello,

I have a High DPI (3000x2000) Screen notebook with 13,5 Zoll with Windows 10

I still need a Windows 8.1 so I installed it in the VM Ware Player. So far so good, the DPI setting is passed to the VM Guest. in Windows itself no big issues, but as you know, not all programs like this high DPI settings.

I would prefer to restrict the Guest resolution to max of 1600x...or may be better 1400x... with a normal DPI setting. I can set up this resolution somehow, but if I enable full Screen it changes or it shows me a small window on the black background.

I was expecting to have the Screen scaled (magnified) to the Full screen. The correct english term is "stretch" .

How to I do this. I could not find any Option or possibility in the VM Player 12 (NOT the full workstation).

Kind regards and many thanks

Markus

[RMDEQ]

Today, I "upgraded" to VMware Workstation 12 Player 12.1.1 build-3770994.

My problem appears to be similar. The guest operating system is a small box in the middle of my 3000x2000 display, and nothing I can do makes it stretch so I kind have some kind of larger screen for my guest.

It was not this case prior to my upgrade. There was always some combination of minimize, resize, restore down and maximize on the VMware Workstation Player 12 window that would get my Guest to expand to take up more of the screen (and full screen, if I click the VMWare icon for that). But, with 12.1.1, small screen surrounded with at least three inches of black on each side.

[RMDEQ]

I don't know what I did, but some random combination of the above actions on the guest window made the stretch happen. I had also tried opening the display options in the guest, but the complete lack of screen real estate in the guest meant that I couldn't access any of the settings.

But give it a try. YMMV.