Stretch VMWare Player guest OS to fullscreen
- by Synetech
I’m using VMWare Player to play an old 16-bit Windows game. Unfortunately the game uses only 640x480 and I cannot figure out how to stretch the VM window to full-screen on the host. I set the guest OS to 640x480, but the screen is still small, in the middle of the screen as seen in figure 1.
I even tried setting the compatibility mode to Windows 95 and 640x480, but it has no effect (figure 2) and looks exactly the same as when I set the VM to full-screen (1366x768 on the laptop) and start the game normally.
There are few references to stretching a VM. One page mentions setting a Stretch Guest option, but there is no such option, at least not in VMWare Player 4.0.3.
I know that VirtualBox has a stretching option, but I’m trying to find a solution for VMWare (Player, not Workstation).
Figure 1: Guest OS is pillar-boxed
Figure 2: Using compatibility mode
