Re: VirtualBox: Can't start VM

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Hi Paul, I am using VMware and one of the limitations seems to be
that you can't interactively switch out of the default resolution,
which is whatever size you scale the window to be. In settings, you
can specify a different window size, and it would seem that 800x600
is the right size. I suspect it would be better to try using VBox for this.

At 28/07/2014 23:10, you wrote:
> Are you using Virtualbox or VMware?
> In Vbox I would establish Scaled Mode first by using Host-C, or
> Right-CTRL+C by default, or using the View pulldown menu to select
> Scaled Mode, then try ALT-Enter.
> Be sure that you have the current Virtualbox additions installed.
> Every time Vbox is upgraded to a new version, they need to be reinstalled.
> I no longer have a functioning VMware setup, so don't know what
> might be the equivalent there, if anything,
>
> Paul
> On 07/28/2014 05:39 PM, Bill Troop wrote:
> > Paul, is there some way for me to enter full screen other than
> > pressing Alt-Enter? Doing that gives me the mini-full-screen which
> > I don't like. Honestly, I'm happy enough with the
> > top-to-bottom-XyWindow, but I would like to experiment with full
> > screen if it were possible to get it to work. Hasn't full screen
> > always been a challenge with laptops for some reason? (I am on a laptop.) - - B
> >
> > At 28/07/2014 22:02, you wrote:
> > > Carl and all,
> > > I think I know what's going on. It's not really a true fullscreen,
> > > because the window title bar and the taskbar are visible. I
> > > believe this is Scaled Mode (activated thru a menu or with
> > > RightControl-C, AKA Host-C) with XyWrite fullscreen. I can achieve
> > > something similar in Ubuntu; see Fullscreen-Xy4-in-VBox-Scaled-mode.jpg.
> > > True fullscreen mode (RightControl-F, AKA Host-F) produces a
> > > dismal XyWrite with ALT-Enter, see Fullscreen-Xy4-in-VBox-Fullscreen-mode.jpg.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 07/28/2014 04:14 PM, Carl Distefano wrote:
> > > > Bill:
> > > > > If you can achieve fullscreen, which is what you want, that's
> > > > > OK, but you should find it easy to make any VM (that is, W2K and
> > > > > higher) any size you want.
> > > > Makes sense; I need to play with that. After I discovered full
> > > > screen, though, I was also somehow able to make windowed XyWrite
> > > > bigger. I must say that, although I'm elated about getting full
> > > > screen, I'm nervous about the fact that I don't quite know *how*
> > > > I got it, other than at some point hitting Alt-Enter. One of the
> > > > side effects of doing so was to change the resolution of the
> > > > virtual Win 7 desktop from whatever it was down to 800x600. This
> > > > appears to be related, and may even be a sine qua non, for
> > > > getting a full-screen DOS session. It's a little disconcerting
> > > > because all of this happened without my consciously changing any
> > > > settings. I'd really like to identify the necessary steps and
> > > > settings so that I can replicate it on other machines. A quick
> > > > search of the VirtualBox user forums did not provide much
> > > > enlightenment. It seems that other people have stumbled on this
> > > > phenomenon, but so far I haven't found a step-by-step procedure
> > > > for achieving it. And I confess I haven't yet cracked the VBox documentation.
> > > > > Does lag decrease in fullscreen?
> > > > No, when I experienced the lag, it was about the same in a window
> > > > and full screen. But the lag substantially disappeared in both
> > > > window and full screen after I rebooted the VM. And I've rebooted
> > > > the VM several times since then, and the lag has not come back.
> > > > When I'm typing in full-screen, I can barely tell the difference
> > > > from Xy running full-screen under WinXP.