I have a couple of guestVM machines (Linux, Win, Solaris).
All of them start (on a 64bit Win 7 hostOS) with a smaller window size as the later "working" screen/display size.
For example when the Linux Mint login page is shown in VM window then the size is 1024x768.
Now I enter login name and password.
Then the guestOS looks into its OS-dependent preferences, detects a screen resolution of 1400x900 and adjusts the guestOS window accordingly.
How can I tell VMware to start a certain VM (or even all VMs) with an initial window size for the login/welcome screen of 1400x900 ?
Matt
Hi Matt,
Can't you just use this?
Ubuntu Forums - HOWTO: Change bootup resolution
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Wil
Is there not a more general solution for all types of guestOS?
I could imagine that there is a *.vmx parameter to set the resolution (independent from guestOS)
Hi,
AFAIK the screen resolution is set by the guest OS, so I do not see how it can be set for general guest OS's before boot.
Perhaps when the guest supports EFI that there's a way to do so.
Not sure would have to dive into the EFI docs for that.
For macOS there's a way to set it via nvram, but I doubt that is going to work for a linux guest.
See post from HPReg here: Re: Mavericks Guest OS Resolution resets on restart
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Wil