Specifications

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Fitting the Console Window to the Virtual Machine
The View menu gives you two ways to adjust the size of the VMware Virtual Machine
Console window so it exactly fits the virtual machine’s display.
Autofit is toggled on or off each time you click it. When Autofit is on, the console
window adjusts automatically to fit the virtual machine’s display. When it is off, you
can adjust the console window to a size of your choice. If you make the console
window smaller than the virtual machine’s display, scroll bars appear so you can move
to the part of the virtual machine’s display that you want to see.
If Autofit is off, you can choose View > Fit to adjust the console window so it fits the
virtual machine’s display.
Fitting a Windows Guest Operating System’s Display
to the VMware Virtual Machine Console Window
If your Windows guest operating system is set to a display resolution larger or smaller
than the size of the virtual machine window, you can make it fit exactly by choosing
View > Fit Guest to Window.
When you choose Fit Guest to Window, GSX Server adjusts the display settings of
your Windows guest operating system as needed. If you subsequently run the virtual
machine in window mode, you may want to change the display settings back to their
previous values.
Note: When you use the Fit Guest to Window option and the window is small, your
guest operating system’s screen resolution may be set to something smaller than VGA
(640 x 480). Some installers and other programs do not run at resolutions smaller than
640 x 480. If either the width or height is smaller than the corresponding dimension
required for VGA, the programs refuse to run. Error messages may include such
phrases as “VGA Required To Install” or “You must have VGA to install.”
There are two ways to work around this problem.
• If your host computer's screen resolution is high enough, you can enlarge the
window, then choose Fit Guest to Window.
• If your host computer's screen resolution does not allow you to enlarge the
window enough, do not use Fit Guest to Window. Instead, set the guest
operating system's screen resolution to 640 x 480 or larger.