[PLUG] Problems vmware player...

Alan Olsen alan.olsen at gmail.com
Tue Dec 19 17:56:43 UTC 2006


On 12/18/06, someone <plug_0 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
>
> Vmware Workstation 5.5, when I ran Warcraft in an XP Home virtual
> machine, would stretch Warcraft to fit the screen.  In player same
> virtual image when I expand to full screen, no stretching at all.
> Is there any way to achieve the same behavior in player that I saw
> in workstation?  I don't know if Workstation actually stretched
> Warcraft to fit the screen or if it dropped the screen to 640x480
> resolution in full screen mode.
>
> I can change the resolution of X via "ctrl alt -," but this isn't
> the greatest work around.  It lowers the resolution, but shoves part
> of the current desktop off screen.  Nothing like having to scroll your
> virtual machine back on screen and refocus on it.  I wish with vmware
> player I could lock to the virtual machine window so that hitting the
> edge causes the virtual machine to scroll instead of kicking me out onto
> the host system.
>
> Has anyone else had problems getting the same result with player that
> they experienced with workstation?
>
> Player ideally is workstation without the option to create new
> virtual machines.  Sadly, it appears to be a lot less than that.


Do you have the vmware tools installed on the guest OS?



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