Specifications

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Verify that the guest operating system display mode is larger than the host system display mode. If the
guest operating system display mode is smaller than the host system display mode, you might not be
able to enter full screen mode. If you cannot enter full screen mode, add the line
mks.maxRefreshRate=1000 to the virtual machine configuration (.vmx) file.
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Verify that the latest version of VMware Tools is installed in the guest operating system.
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If you are running the virtual machine in full screen mode on a laptop, configure the guest operating
system to report battery information. See “Report Battery Information in the Guest,” on page 62.
Procedure
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To enter full screen mode, select the virtual machine and select Player > Full Screen.
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To hide the full screen toolbar and menus while you are using full screen mode, click the push pin icon
and move the pointer off of the toolbar.
This action unpins the toolbar. The toolbar slides up to the top of the monitor and disappears. To
display the toolbar again, point to the top of the screen until the toolbar appears.
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To exit full screen mode and return to windowed mode, select Player > Full Screen from the full screen
toolbar. The check mark next to Full Screen is removed.
Report Battery Information in the Guest
If you run a virtual machine on a laptop in full screen mode, configure the option to report battery
information in the guest so that you can determine when the battery is running low.
Prerequisites
Power off the virtual machine.
Procedure
1 Select the virtual machine and select Player > Manage > Virtual Machine Settings.
2 On the Options tab, select Power.
3 Select Report battery information to guest.
4 Click OK to save your changes.
Use Unity Mode
You can switch virtual machines that have Linux or Windows 2000 or later guest operating systems to Unity
mode to display applications directly on the host system desktop.
In Unity mode, virtual machine applications appear on the host system desktop, you can use the virtual
machine Start or Applications menu from the host system, and the virtual machine console view is hidden.
Items for open virtual machine applications appear on the host system taskbar in the same way as open host
applications.
On host system and virtual machine applications that are displayed in Unity mode, you can use keyboard
shortcuts to copy, cut, and paste images, plain text, formatted text, and email attachments between
applications. You can also drag and drop and copy and paste files between the host system and the guest
operating system.
If you save a file or attempt to open a file from an application in Unity mode, the file system you see is the
file system inside the virtual machine. You cannot open a file from the host operating system or save a file to
the host operating system.
For some guest operating systems, application windows in Unity mode can appear only on the monitor that
is set as the primary display when you have multiple monitors. If the host and guest operating systems are
Windows XP or later, the application windows can appear on additional monitors.
Getting Started with VMware Player
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