Settings > Display: Enabling 'VM display size is fixed' does not work

[benz0li]

Describe the issue

Enabling 'VM display size is fixed' does not disable dynamic resolution for macOS Sonoma guests.

Configuration

• UTM Version: 4.4.4
• macOS Version: Sonoma 14.1
• Mac Chip (Intel, M1, ...): M2

Crash log

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Debug log

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[benz0li]

Please move this from the UTM settings to the VM settings, so this can be set per VM.

Thank you.

[osy]

Can you describe your use case with some more detail? Curious why you want some VMs to have no dynamic resolution and some to have it.

[benz0li]

Can you describe your use case with some more detail? Curious why you want some VMs to have no dynamic resolution and some to have it.

The one VM I do not want dynamic resolution enabled:

• VM: macOS Sonoma
  • Safari: VMware Horizon HTML Access
    ℹ️ Safari run in full screen mode.
    • Connection to Windows 10 VM
      ℹ️ The remote desktop is resized to match the size of the browser window by default (= setting can not be changed by user)

I would like to set a fixed resolution of 3840 x 2160 for the macOS Sonoma VM so that the Windows 10 VM also has a fixed resolution (Safari run in full screen mode).

The UTM Window is usually run in full screen mode on a 4K display (3840 x 2160) but sometimes has to be moved to the Laptop screen with a lower resolution.
👉 With dynamic resolution enabled this messes up the window layout on the Windows 10 VM.

[zxzzz8]

just came to report this bug too, glad someone already did, so ty ^^
the scaling is really annoying in many cases, and indeed can sometimes mess up many things, so i hope this gets fixed soon,
ill consider to not update my other macos guests to sonoma until then mby.... at least for a while.

and ye having this setting per vm seems basic and vital so big support for that! = 3
was kynda surprised it was a global setting to begin with tbh, as it seems a bit broken and unnatural for it to be global because i think its like almost always very per case matter anyway.

[benz0li]

@osy The issue is still present in v4.4.5, i.e. enabling 'VM display size is fixed' does not work.

Furthermore, v4.4.5 is not available in the App Store. Latest version there is still 4.4.4.

[wcomhelp]

bumbing. I also have this issue.