Comments on: VMWare Player is too small on Windows 10! Also what is 1036521??

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:32:33 +0000

nor does 15 🙁

By: tinpin

tinpin — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:34:31 +0000

In reply to ender. Unfortunately, VMWare Workstation 14 Player does not fix the unfortunate unusable mouse side effect.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 02:06:43 +0000

In reply to ender. I need nested ESXi... Sigh. Although KVM can run ESXi, I guess I should try VBOX.

By: ender

ender — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:30:29 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

I actually switched to VirtualBox for a lot of my testing, because despite it having worse graphic driver, the ability to scale guest display makes it more usable than Workstation.

And I’d never return to regular DPI now – text is so nice on 5k 🙂

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:33:41 +0000

In reply to ender.

I haven’t tried the mouse! I was so fixated on just being able to read it…

I guess the real solution is to forget 4k+++ screens and drop back to 1920×1080 or so..

By: ender

ender — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:03:18 +0000

VMWare Workstation has the same problem on High DPI, and while turning on DPI scaling overriding makes the picture larger, it completely messes up mouse in the guest.

I wonder if Workstation 14 fixes this. VirtualBox has two ways of scaling guest display – fixed percentage, or by having the guest display scale to window, either of these would be nice to have in VMWare.