Specifications

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Using Full Screen Mode
Full screen mode is faster than window mode. If you do not need to have your virtual
machine and your host sharing the screen, try switching to full screen mode.
Note: You see the most noticeable improvement using full screen mode when the
guest is in VGA mode. VGA mode is any mode in which the screen is in text mode
(DOS, for example, or Linux virtual terminals), or 16-color 640 x 480 graphics mode (for
example, the Windows 95 or Windows 98 clouds boot screen, or any guest operating
system that is running without the SVGA driver provided by VMware Tools).