
In display settings:Įnable: Accelerate 3D Graphics Select: Use host settings for monitors like this :

The next thing to go about was to try and correct something in default settings so that VMWare can fit in the guest OS according to the Host OS screen resolution and settings so that when in full screen mode the guest OS leaves no void spaces around the display region. After the install and entering the full screen mode the screen looked something like this: I use VMWare Workstation 12 player along with a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit virtual machine installed in it. using a Ubuntu virtual machine on a Windows host. So was the case with me and I went on for the obvious solution i.e.

There will be many of you not interested in dual-booting Ubuntu with Windows but still need to use both.
