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Installed new vmware player and launched old vista, found display is too small.

Checked Display is by default "auto", applied workaround as below:

1) stop vista VM

2) edit vista.vmx

svga.autodetect = "TRUE"
changed to
svga.autodetect = "FALSE"
svga.maxWidth = “1024″
svga.maxHeight = “768″

3) then reset vmware, will work fine in 1024×768 resolution.