Font size in VMWare Fusion on the Mac

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Since I upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.5 (14F1021) on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) the font size on my VMware Fusion is minuscule and I cannot figure out how to increase the font size. Sure would like to fix this without asking my 2 sons to solve another problem! It sure would impress them if I could fix this myself!

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It sounds like a resolution issue, more than a font size issue. If so, take these steps:

You may have to shut down (not suspend) your VM whilst making these changes.

Open the Virtual Machine Library window (Shift + Command + L)

On the left side of the window, select the VM you want to change the resolution.

At the top of the Library window select "Settings"

Under Settings, choose "Display"

On the bottom half of the Display preference pane, uncheck "Use full resolution for Retina Display".

If this does not resolve your issue completely, you may need to adjust the display resolution within your VM was well using it's own display preferences.

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For what its worth I've seen the same issue with Fusion 6 and nmap. I also saw tcpdump fail as well:

sudo tcpdump -i vmnet8
tcpdump: vmnet8: No such device exists
(BIOCSETIF failed: Device not configured)

After upgrading libpcap to 1.40 and this still not resolving the problem, I found the following outdated post: https://communities.vmware.com/message/693833#693833

Specifically this quote is where the issue lies: "No guarantees, but we can try to take a look at implementing BPF on Fusion's network interfaces in a future release."

This seems to point to the issue being a vmware problem, so I tried VirtualBox 4.3.0 and when using NAT at least, the issues do not occur (nmap also worked for me):

$ ifconfig
…
vboxnet0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 0a:00:00:00:00:00
inet 192.168.56.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.56.255

$ sudo tcpdump -i vboxnet0
tcpdump: WARNING: vboxnet0: That device doesn't support promiscuous mode
(BIOCPROMISC: Operation not supported on socket)
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on vboxnet0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes

Leopard in VMWare Fusion

for about $20 USD you can buy Mac OS X 10.6 Server from Apple. I did so just the other day ordering by phone.

This version of OS X IS allowed to be run as a Virtual Machine as long as the host is Apple hardware.

So this will allow you, for example, to run 10.6 in a virtual machine on a modern iMac running Mac OSX 10.11.

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