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  • 1.  Disable automatic guest resizing

    Posted Jul 23, 2007 07:56 AM

    Hi all,

    Is there a way in Fusion to turn off the automatic guest resizing that occurs when you resize the VM's window? I always turned it off in Workstation! I'm using RC1 in case that's important.

    I've tried adding pref.autoFitGuestToWindow = "false" to the preferences and config files in /Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion but that didn't seem to have any effect. Am I fiddling with the wrong file maybe?

    One reason for wanting to do this is that the Solaris tools seem to ignore the initial screen size set in xorg.conf and always chooses far too large a screen size. Yes, you can resize it, but it'd be nice if it chose the size it was meant to in the first place :smileyhappy:

    Cheers!



  • 2.  RE: Disable automatic guest resizing

    Posted Jul 23, 2007 07:57 PM

    Okay, so adding that entry into the preferences file does indeed disable the /automatic/ resizing. Solaris is still choosing a ridiculously large screen size though. I'll report back when I find out what's going on.

    EDIT: Er, no, seems it doesn't after all. confused!

    Message was edited by:

    met24



  • 3.  RE: Disable automatic guest resizing

    Posted Jul 23, 2007 08:03 PM

    I think you really want to solve this inside Solaris by editing xorg.conf, but if you're sure you want to do it via editing config files on OS X, the one you want is ~/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/preferences. Try adding pref.autoFitFullScreen = "none"[/code] (delete any other autoFitFullScreen line).

    http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/pref-2-vmx.html



  • 4.  RE: Disable automatic guest resizing

    Posted Jul 23, 2007 08:10 PM

    (1) The OP was talking about window resizes, not fullscreen, though maybe you want fit-guest disabled in both cases, met24?

    (2) The pref.autoFitWhatever options listed above are Workstation preferences, and I don't believe that Fusion honors them.



  • 5.  RE: Disable automatic guest resizing

    Posted Jul 23, 2007 08:52 PM

    (1) The OP was talking about window resizes, not

    fullscreen, though maybe you want fit-guest disabled

    in both cases, met24?

    You're right, I misread. I should have said pref.autoFit = "false"[/code]

    (2) The pref.autoFitWhatever options listed above are

    Workstation preferences, and I don't believe that

    Fusion honors them.

    I don't know about other settings, but I've found that Fusion does honor pref.autoFitFullScreen = "fitHostToGuest"[/code]