Where is this stretch to occur? If the monitor has a stretch feature use that. If the VM doesn't stretch, work that. As you can guess there are more than one place to look so see what video mode the monitor is receiving to see if that's where the stretch is needed. If the video is receiving the native mode then you need to work the stretch in the VM host.
This is a convoluted question but i'll try to make it simple.
I am running Windows 7 32bit in VMWare on Windows 10. I am doing this because I have speciality legacy software I need to used. I'd like to operate it at 1024x768 but have the window/software stretch out to fill my monitor. Reason being the GUI is designed for 1024*768 but looks good "stretched".
I used to have a Windows XP machine with the same software (no VMWare) and I would just set the resolution to 1024x768 and windows and my software would fill my 24" widescreen montitor nicely (it would be stretch/distorted) but again it would work well for the software I am dealing with.
In win10 I get black bars on either side of the monitor when changing resolutions. Is there anyway to have it look like it did in winxp?

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