RE: VirtualBox: Can't start VM

["Harry Binswanger" hb@xxxxxxxx]

Yes, the size that both VBox and Flash Player come up in are
unacceptably small. But Parallels doesn't have that problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx
[mailto:xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Troop
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 6:44 PM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: VirtualBox: Can't start VM

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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>