I have a late 2011 MBP. I installed Fusion 5 earlier today and eventually installed Windows 8. I initially installed Windows Pro 8 directly into Fusion, however I could not activate it. After two calls to Microsoft, learned that Windows Pro 8 is not a full install, but considered an upgrade requiring a prior version of Windows to be installed first. I deleted the virtual machine I had created and started a new one. I initially installed Windows 7 then did the Windows Pro 8 installation. From a performance perspective, everything is running well. However, I am having issues with taking full advantage of my display.
When I have Fusion in a window, I cannot resize the window to expand or contract the window. In Full Screen mode, the screen fills vertically, but I have about an inch of black screen on each side of the Windows 8 app horizontally. I have tried modifying the screen resolution to no avail. It will not spread to fill in the two black screen.
Since I am a "newbie" to Fusion 5, is there some setting or something that I am missing or any ideas on how to resolve this? Any input would be appreciated.