On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:16 PM, dick hoogendijk <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 13:07 +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Jerry Kemp <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I am (somewhat) successfully attempting to run a couple of older games in a
>> > VM using VirtualBox 3.1.2.  Specifically StarCraft and Age of Empires.
>> >
>> > More specifically, The games install and run fine, but I have a problem 
>> > with
>> > the amount of screen resolution that they take up.  Once a game is started,
>> > the VirtualBox window resizes to 640x480 or 800x600, i.e. what ever amount
>> > of space these older games would take up.
>> >
>> > Going full screen keeps the game resolution small, with a lot of black 
>> > space
>> > on the rest of my display.
>> >
>> > How do I get my game to resize/utilize the entire display, vs just a small
>> > patch of the display???
>> >
>> > Other specifics:
>> >
>> > VirtualBox ver 3.1.2
>> > guest os - windows xp
>> > host os - OpenSolaris Nevada b113
>> > hw - Sun Ultra 20 M2 - frame buffer Nvidia Quadro FX 1500 as shipped from
>> > Sun.
>> >
>>
>> Open a feature request in bugzilla.
>>
>> I would like to have this, too...
>
> +1
> I removed StarCraft just for the reason it's only 640x480. That's tiny
> on a 1280 screen and almost unplayable.
>

Opened new wish:
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5875

Add your comments there...

-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"

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