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Luckily, Apple also supports this WindowServer preference that will force listing HiDPI-equivalent modes for the available resolution, which I’ve seen documented several places before like here: Vmware Fusion Unsupported Macos Version See icons, menubar and window elements for scale. VM running within a window at 2474x1788 resolution. Here’s the Displays preference pane running in this configuration: Indeed, toggling this setting immediately scales back the VM resolution and, while giving us more screen real-estate, makes things look tiny. This makes the text and icons to appear small in the OS X interface. After update vmware tools, dispay select only hidpi only for mac os vm mac os x#Mac OS X running in a virtual machine is limited to an approximate resolution of 2560 x 1600, and treats the display as a standard DPI device. Since a picture’s worth a thousand words, it looks like this: VMware Fusion does however have retina display support, whereby VMs can be enabled to run at the native pixel resolution at the given VM window size, documented here. VM on top, native 5K iMac display on the bottom. In this image I’ve stacked up two views of the General system preference pane, with the VM’s on top, and my 5K retina iMac’s on the bottom, for comparison (note that this difference will only be easily discernable if you’re actually reading this on a retina device): After update vmware tools, dispay select only hidpi only for mac os vm install#Open Install VMware Tools on the VMware Tools virtual disc, follow the prompts in the installer assistant, and click OK. If an earlier version of VMware Tools is installed, the menu item is Update VMware Tools. Procedure On the host, from the VMware Fusion menu bar, select Virtual Machine Install VMware Tools. ![]() After update vmware tools, dispay select only hidpi only for mac os vm windows#Parallels Desktop vs VMware Fusion – A side-by-side comparison of performance, usability and functionality of the 2 best apps to run Windows on Mac. macOS VMs by default run at a standard resolution that’s upscaled to the retina screen, making it look blocky by comparison - and more importantly, any screenshots taken within the guest VM will not be retina-resolution. There are often times when I’d like to take a retina-quality screenshot of something on a macOS system (for this blog, or a presentation, for example), but I’d like to screenshot something that I’ve got running in a virtual machine.
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