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JamesBurgess
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‎12-13-2017 02:21 PM

Display Preferences don't work on new or upgraded OSX VMs after upgrade to 10.0.1

Existing VMs of guest OS X work fine, but any new, or VM that upgraded to "hardware 14" and the latest VMware tools installed, will not change the guest's display resolution no matter what settings are chosen. Either in Fusion Preferences or the guest's display settings. Going full screen doesn't work either, the display for the guest remains the same resolution.

I'm not on a retina display but it makes no difference if I chose "Use full resolution for Retina Display" or not.

It makes no difference if I choose "Use Fusion Display Preferences", "Resize the virtual machine and the window" or "Stretch the virtual machine in the window" (or the screen versions). It always behaves in the "stretch" mode.

There are no choices in display resolution in the guest's System Preferences->Displays other than the size it is stuck on (1024x768)

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parmarr
VMware Employee
VMware Employee
‎12-20-2017 04:35 AM

See Retina display support in VMware Fusion https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2034670 Also for additional info see Installing VMware Tools in a Fusion virtual machine running Windows https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003417

Sincerely, Rahul Parmar VMware Support Moderator
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Solidbrass
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‎01-24-2018 10:02 AM

No, it's just broken for macOS guests.  If you enable "Use full resolution for Retina display" then the UI in the macOS guest will be rendered correctly but at an enormous performance penalty because it is doing software scaling of the UI in a virtual graphics card.  If you turn this setting off then shut the guest VM down and boot it back up, VMware tools will force the macOS guest to use "highDPI" mode in display preferences, making everything cartoonishly huge.  If you try to change this setting, VMware tools will instantly change it back.  If you then open VM preferences, untick "Use full resolution for Retina display", wait for the guest display to completely re-render, and then untick it again, you get to use the guest without the performance penalty or the brokenly-huge UI for that session.  Shutting down the guest and starting it again requires you to jump through these hoops again.

It has been broken on all version of Fusion 10 Pro.

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raiford
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‎01-24-2018 10:22 AM

Yes, it is currently broken. The trick is to disable the auto dpi support and then just manage the display properties manually.

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