I run a virtualized automation lab via VMWare Fusion. This lab is used to QA test Mac software. I have dozens of VMs running on a variety of Mac hardware using VMWare Fusion 6.0.2. The problem I am seeing is that the Mavericks VMs have their screen resolution reset to 1024x768 upon every reboot and that is the only resolution available in the System Preferences Display panel.
The way I set up VMs is like so:
1. Using the VMWare Fusion app create a new VM and install the operating system.
2. Install VMWare Tools in the guest. Restart the VM.
3. Configure the guest OS with my settings. This always includes setting the screen resolution to something above 1400x1050. I do this by stretching the window in the VMWare Fusion application or by setting the resolution via System Preferences.
4. Shutdown the VM and make a copy of it. This copy is my default state.
In actual use after that the VMs are run headless using vmrun with the nogui argument. For all versions of OS X VMs the resolution stays the same when the VM is restarted. For Mavericks VMs the resolution is changed to 1024x768.
For all other OSes multiple resolutions show up in the System Preferences Display panel. For Mavericks only that one resolution appears in the Scaled options.
I have tried the steps in KB 1003:
but that did not fix the problem.
I have tried turning 3d acceleration on and off and the problem exists in both cases. Changing the resolution by resizing the window while using VMWare Fusion app works fine but that is not possible when running headless.
Tech support via phone suggested I post this problem to the community and see if there are any answers here. Thanks in advance.
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