Parallels 9 on Mavericks on MBP Retina

RickRobinson · Oct 24, 2013

I have success with the installation and Parallels runs fine, but the XP operating system assumes a screen resolution of 2492x1514 and so everything is tiny, tiny, tiny. Icons are small, text is small, etc. I tried changing the resolution in the XP Control Panel, but it just reverts if I resize the resulting window. Is this something to do with having a retina display on my MBP? Desktop image looks fine, just all the icons, text, toolbar, etc are about 1/4 normal size (prior to upgrading.) See attached screenshot.

RickRobinson · Oct 24, 2013

Figured it out. Had to turn off Retina Resolution in Parallels configuration.

MobileGuy · Nov 2, 2013

I'm having this same problem and cannot find this setting. Where did you find this setting?

Thanks

RickRobinson · Nov 2, 2013

Have the VM running. Under the "Virtual Machine" menu, select "Configure..."

In the "Video" settings UNCHECK "Enable Retina resolution" checkbox.

That worked for me.

MobileGuy · Nov 3, 2013

I don't see an "Enable retina resolution" checkbox. i only see a 3 way option for "Scaled", "Best for retina", and "More space". I'm running latest parallels 9

RickRobinson said:
Have the VM running. Under the "Virtual Machine" menu, select "Configure..."

In the "Video" settings UNCHECK "Enable Retina resolution" checkbox.

That worked for me.

RickRobinson · Nov 4, 2013

Sorry, I left out a step. In the "Configure..." window, select the "Hardware" settings. There, you should see a "Video" option on the left. click on that and see if the "Enable Retina resolution" checkbox is there.

MobileGuy · Nov 4, 2013

This is what i see
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6595319/Screen Shot 2013-11-04 at 10.25.50 AM.png

RickRobinson · Nov 4, 2013

I'm running XP, so maybe that is the difference. Otherwise, I can't explain why what you see is different than what I see.

MobileGuy · Nov 4, 2013

Thanks for the help Rick. I noticed if i boot my windows 8 vm with the mac book pro lid closed and plugged into my thunderbolt display that it looks good (non retina). I'll go with that for now.