[Blind-sysadmins] vmware and video resolution on emulated card

Hello, I'm running vmware workstation. I've got an xp vm that when I alter it's video settings I can get it up to something insane like 1900 by 1024 at 32 bit color. On my host machine I can only pull 1280 by 768. I'm not sure how this is possible given that vmware only emulates the video card it doesn't add another one. Did I miss something here? Thanks. Dave.