> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:10:30 -0700 > From: Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [vbox-users] Trouble getting guest video driver to work in XP > home > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > 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 have rather similar symptoms with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS as the host and Windows NT 4 Server SP6a as the guest OS. > 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 only see 640x480 with 16 colours using the default Microsoft VGA driver. > 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. I can select only 640x480 and 800x600 at 16 colours using the Innotek driver. Many other resolutions are available (e.g. 1024x768 with 65556 colours) but they all give a scrambled display when tested. After selecting a new low-res (but working) setting, after reboot the driver fails to load (not installed or not configured properly) and the system reverts to the microsoft VGA driver. > 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? I tried 16Mb, but it made absolutely no difference. However, a ubuntu guest (with the linux additions installed) is working perfectly with 1024x768. It seems to be a problem with the windows driver. The same driver is apparently supposed to work on all supported windows guest OS's. I haven't found a solution yet. Can anyone suggest how to diagnose the problem further? Brian _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
