I have a 24" iMac and a 24" Dell secondary monitor.
The Dell is physically rotated to portrait mode measuring 1200 pixels wide and 1920 pixels tall.
To set this up in OS X I went to Sys Prefs > Displays > Rotate 90 degrees
I use Fusion on the Dell, resizing it to as close to full-screen as possible.
As you can see, it's not entirely full-screen (note the portion of the Finder near the bottom). If I resize it any closer to the bottom of the monitor the entire Fusion window turns black. This is about as tall as it can go.
When I click Fusion's Full Screen button the entire windows goes black. When I move the mouse it slowly "paints away" the black, as you can see below.
How can I get Fusion to work in full screen mode on my secondary monitor which is rotated 90 degrees?
Hi ryan,
This one's fixed in VMware Fusion 2.0. It also adds multiple monitor support, which you might find handy.
To work around it for Fusion 1.x, I believe you should be able to power off your VM and edit the .vmx file to add:
svga.maxWidth = 1920
svga.maxHeight = 1920
You can grab the 2.0 beta 1 release here:
You may need to increase the size for Video RAM add following line in your .vmx file
svga.vramSize = "167772160"
I added this rule to the .vmx file but the problem still persists.
Any other ideas?
Hi ryan,
This one's fixed in VMware Fusion 2.0. It also adds multiple monitor support, which you might find handy.
To work around it for Fusion 1.x, I believe you should be able to power off your VM and edit the .vmx file to add:
svga.maxWidth = 1920
svga.maxHeight = 1920
You can grab the 2.0 beta 1 release here:
That did the trick in Fusion 1.x - thank you!
I'll upgrade to version 2 as soon as it goes gold. I try to stay away from betas if I can.