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Does anyone the best recommended settings for the items listed in the subject line? Resolution looks so small. I installed Windows 8.1 Pro on my late-2013 15" MacBook Pro (MBP) via VMware's Fusion 6 (version 6.0.2).
Thanks.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
If you used VMware Fusion to install Windows, first make sure you have installed VMware Tools in Windows. Read > http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=display KC&externalId=1003417
Then, you will be able to change the Windows resolution as usual. In Windows, right-click in the desktop and select "Screen resolution". There are other ways to do this > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/get-best-display-monitor.
There are not best recommended settings because it depends on the hardware of your computer: for example, if you have got 8 GB of RAM, you can assign 4 GB of RAM to the virtual machine (depending on the applications you use), or if you have got a Quad-Core processor with Hyper-Threading, you can assign more processor threads to the virtual machine so you can improve performance.
Thank you for the information.
I already have VMware Tools installed. What my question really revolves around is the issue surrounding the resolution. Is there a "recommended" setting to use while on a 15" MacBook Pro Retina?
When I follow the directions on the second link you provided, I do not see the "recommended" resolution. Instead, I see a warning that the resolution is about to be set under 1536 x 1080 which will cause some items to not fit on the screen.
Everything on the screen is so small. Even when I set the font to 200%, everything is still "small" and hard to read on the MacBook Pro Retina screen.
Any other suggestions?
VMware Fusion 6 (v 6.0.2), 15" MacBook Pro Retina (late-2013), and Windows 8.1
