If your Windows guest operating system is set to a display resolution larger or smaller than the size of the virtual machine window, you can make it fit exactly by choosing View > Fit Guest to Window.
When you choose Fit Guest to Window, VMware Workstation adjusts the display settings of your Windows guest operating system as needed. If you subsequently run the virtual machine in normal mode, you may want to change the display settings back to their previous values.
Note: When you use the Fit Guest to Window option and the window is small, your guest operating system's screen resolution may be set to something smaller than VGA (640 x 480). Some installers and other programs do not run at resolutions smaller than 640 x 480. If either width or height is smaller than the corresponding dimension required for VGA, the programs refuse to run. Error messages may include such phrases as "VGA Required To Install" or "You must have VGA to install."
There are two ways to work around this problem.
If you prefer, you can turn off display of many of the controls visible in the VMware Workstation window.
Use the View menu to toggle the following controls on or off:
On a Windows host, you can also hide the menu bar. To do so, click the title bar icon, then choose Hide Controls.
Choosing Hide Controls hides the menu bar, the toolbar, the status bar and the Favorites panel.
For the simplest possible VMware Workstation window on a Windows host, first choose View > Virtual Machine Tabs to turn off the tabs. Then, from the title bar icon shortcut menu, choose Hide Controls.
Using the View menu and the title bar icon shortcut menu, you can remove all visible controls from the VMware Workstation window.
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