Re: VirtualBox: Can't start VM

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

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.