I change the size of the VMWare window a lot. For example when opening PDFs as reference docs in OS X to have side-by-side the Fusion window. Very rarely does the refresh occur properly. Usually the screen is black and I have to click around in the dark to minimize the app without changing data (which is scary when I have a database table open), minimize the app, refresh the destkop, unlock the toolbar and move it around, and then readjust the size of the Fusion window again when I notice there are black bands around the client desktop resolution. Upon the 2nd or 3rd time resizing the Fusion window the client resolution seems to snap into place correctly. In short, there are clearly bugs in the resize routines which need to be fixed.
This happens in Win 64 and XP Pro. Hardware is Mac Pro 2.66x2 (quad core), 2GB, 768 to vm, about 200MB free on the system. Monitor is Apple 30" cinema. I have found I can get it to display right by setting the window size, then grabbing it making it more narrow, then widening, back and forth 4-5 times slowly and it finally fills correctly.
In my testing, it looks like you really only need to add the Width and Height settings. From what I understand, VMs are hard capped at 128M video memory, so even trying to force vramsize to 160M as noted here will have no effect. I ran a quick check and dxdiag and video properties still show 128M with this setting enabled.
Thanks etung. So I modified the .vmx file in the recommended manner. I am only able to resize the screen to 2359 x 1502 (hoping for 2560 x 1600). I'm using Fusion version 1.1.1 (72241) with Windows XP Professional x64. Is there anything else I need to do?
