I'm trying to get XP home working as a guest with the guest additions with 1.3.6 running on top of Kubuntu Edgy.
I can install XP Home and SP2 fine. Without the guest additions, Windows uses a standard svga driver that is able to display 800x600 and 1024x768, which it does. I can also install guest additions, and it boots, and they are working, as far as sound and mouse pointer and the like are concerned. However, if I go into the display settings, it shows the "(Default Monitor) on Virtualbox Graphics Adapter" as expected. However, it shows it as being 640x480 pixels (even though the display is actually at 800x600 or 1024x768) and 16 bit colour. It works in this mode, but the moment I take any effort to change the resolution to anything else (even the actual resolution of the screen) we get odd failures. The wallpaper paints but nothing else. Sometimes things are painted as though you have bad memory (repeated copies with half the scan lines missing etc., you have all seen a bad video driver.) After this, it will boot but displays black or just the wallpaper. It does not resize. It is unusable. You can't shut it down except by "hard" poweroff. You can boot in safe mode and remove the driver and it still does not work properly on normal mode reboot. The only way out is to revert to snapshot or complete reinstall. I am using the standard XP Pro+Home ISO from MSDN Universal, no service pack initially. I did specify 16mb for the video graphics memory. Is there a way to decrease this and not have the VM barf because the signature changed? Note I have gotten Win2K to run just fine with guest additions on this system. The XP has also crashed at some odd times so I wonder if it is less stable. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
