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I have installed a Debian 8 guest on VMware Player 12 but I cannot get the Debian screen to fill my whole monitor even in Full Screen mode.
When I set it up, I set screen size to be the same as the host display, and subsequently I have installed open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop on the guest, but still cannot see how to make this happen, or how to use the desktop tools which VMware say are for this purpose.
I figured out a not-ideal-but-effective-nonetheless solution/work-around: use Unity.
Note: the order of steps is important.
(Optionally auto-hide the taskbar.)
Yay! The game runs at full-screen on the guest OS instead of a tiny letter- and pillar-boxed screen. Now the only problem is that the 16-bit game uses 100% CPU, but there’s not much that can be done about that.
Fullscreen host capture of guest VM running in Unity mode:
Disable Write Combines in the advanced Display properties in your XP VM.
Best Answer
If, after installing open-vm-tools, you still don't get a good resolution, you can do this:
Check your current System Resolution (Host System)
Edit
/etc/default/grub(as root)Uncomment the line
GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600(Your screen resolution here mine was 1920x1080)Save the file
Execute the command
update-grub(as root)Reboot (
shutdown -r now)