I bought the upgrade to VMWare Fusion 6 today, and tried out the high-res ('retina') screen support.
On my 15" MacBook Pro, though, windows thinks it has a 3840x2400 screen, when in fact this notebook has a 2880x1800. Is this normal? Compared to Fusion 5, the scaling looks better now running Windows (less blurry text), but it still looks a bit bad to me, compared to native OS X.
I know from other software that this Mac actually does use a 3840x2400 frame buffer for scaling video display, and if you take a screen shot of the whole screen (in OS X) it comes out as a 3840x2400 image.
So, maybe this is the way it is? But since some other users in this forum report seeing 2880x2800 available in the Windows guest OS, I wanted to ask.
Unfortunately I am running the latest OS X Mavericks on this machine and don't have a 10.8.x one available to see if that makes a difference.
My Guest OS is Windows 8.
As an aside, I tried this Knowledge Base procedure to enable custom video resolutions, and it did not work at all. All it did was make the resolutions max out at 1440x1050. No 2880x1800.
svga.autodetect = "FALSE"
svga.vramSize = "20971520"
svga.maxWidth = "2880"
svga.maxHeight = "1800"
Thanks.