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Finally my company bought me a MacBook Pro Retina (yeah! I feel so lucky!)

I always used Windows (and need it, because of Visual Studio), so I installed VMware Fusion.

I installed Windows 7 as virtual machine. The problem is that whenever I launch the machine, VMWare automatically sets the resolution of the guest to the maximum available on the mac (that is 2880x1800). So I changed the resolution from Windows and set it to 1440x900, but when I restart, on the logon screen, it reverts back to 2880x1800 (automatically!). I thought it was due to the VMware Tools, so I uninstalled them. It now works correctly, however I lose a lot of features without the Tools installed. How can I solve this?

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I have the same problem but am using the latest version of VMWare, 5.0.2 – John Catterfeld Dec 21 '12 at 18:55

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Download the VMWare Fusion 2012 technology preview, this issue is fixed in that release.

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I just purchased a 15" Retina MacBook Pro and had the exact same issue as you did. I'll assume that you are running VMWare 4 and the best solution I found was to upgrade to VMWare Fusion 5. This new version has explicit support for the immense resolution of the Retina screen and it solved all of the resolution related problems I had. – Paul Shaw Nov 19 '12 at 20:54
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You can also use the following command to set the resolution:

C:\Program Files\VMware Tools\VMwareResolutionSet.exe"  0 1 , 0 0 1920 1440
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I dont have a real fix I guess that will require a patch from VMware. In the meantime I found this hint via Google:

Go out of full screen mode (ctrl-cmd-F) and then back again.

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Thank you, it works! – hkproj Aug 13 '12 at 16:27

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