Re: VirtualBox: Can't start VM

[Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx]

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.

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Carl Distefano
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