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Multiple monitors settings not working like described (VM 14)

Hi all,

I have tried to configure a multi-monitor VM on a single monitor like described in the docs, but I cannot get that feature to work as intended without manual intervention.

I have two physical monitors with 2560x1440 resolution. On one of them I want a VM having two virtual monitors at 1280x720, and I have set the VM settings accordingly. Unfortunately this setting seems to be ignored, if I start the VM I do always get a 2560x1440 single monitor VM.

I can then manually change the VM to full-screen and "cycle multiple monitors" until I have the VM on both my physical monitors, then open the display settings in the vm OS control panel and set both monitors to 1280x720, whereafter I do indeed have the display settings I need: without me setting the "cycle multiple monitors" setting to 1, the VM collapses to one physical monitor and does show 2 virtual 1280x720 monitors side by side. I have attached screenshots for clarification, also showing the display settings tab.

The setting gets lost whenever I shut down and restart or suspend and wake the VM, and I have to go through the whole clumsy process every time I want to work with these settings.

Any ideas why this is happening, and what I need to do so I get the desired settings permanent?

Thx, Armin.

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