VMWare workstation and 4K (or 1440p) monitor.

[whorsfall]

Hi,

Currently I am using 2 1080p monitors on my VMware host and all goes well. I mainly run Windows based guests but will occasionally run a Linux one.
Anyway a few years I got a notebook with a 4K or 1440p screen and had a lot of problems with the UI not being able to work well. For memory both the UI and the guests were too small and hard to read,

Now I imagine the UI is OK now for High DPI? But how will I go with the guests should I get any issues.

How will things like text go - cmd windows PowerShell within guests. (I am assuming everything will just scale appropriately).

I wanted to get peoples thoughts to see the risks and experiences they have had.

Thanks
Ward

[bluefirestorm]

It depends on different factors (screen size and thus pixel density, personal preference and eyesight) but this is my subjective opinion that the VM is OK to look at (i.e. text is readable and not too small).

Host: Ubuntu 18.04 host, VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.7, on 27" 3840x2160 monitor
Guest: Windows 10 20H2 VM at 2880x1800 (16:10 aspect ratio) at 125% scaling in single window, same VM at 3840x2160 (full screen mode) at 125% scaling

Host: macOS 10.15.7, VMware Fusion 11.5.7 on 16" MacBook Pro
Guest: Windows 10 20H2 VM at 3840x2160 at 150% scaling in single window, same VM at 4096x2560 at 150% scaling (full screen mode)

The scaling refers to the Windows 10 OS display scaling settings.