Haines, Sorry, I wasn’t clear on the memory issue. I meant to say to verify you have enough Video Memory in the VBox Guest settings. The default often is pretty small.
As already mentioned by Kees in his post, the Guest Additions ISO should be in the virtual CD ROM drive after you select it. If it doesn’t run automatically then go to your drives folder and select the CDROM drive and start it from there. I’m curious, why don’t you upgrade to the latest VBox version, 4.3.28? Later versions have a number of improvements and fixes. Cliff > On May 28, 2015, at 4:14 AM, Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 03:17:58PM -0500, Cliff Scott wrote: > >> Regarding the 16 colors, you might check the memory setting in the >> VBox setup for your guest as well as checking which video adapter NT >> thinks you have. I could be wrong, but I suspect that you should get at >> least 250 colors even >> without the Guest Additions. With them I get 32 bit video (16.000,000 >> colors) in WinXP. >> >> Have you read the manual Chapter 4? That will answer your question >> regarding Guest Additions. >> >> Have you installed the VBox Extension Pack? Most people find that >> useful especially since it is required to get USB 2.0 support. > > Cliff, thanks for the suggestions, but I didn't get very far with them. > The VBox Extension Pack sounds useful, but the available packs were only > for specific versions of VirtualBox, not mine (VB 4.1.18). > > I tried guest additions, but the manual did not get me through it. With > Windows NT booted, I go to Devices in the menu to choose the ISO. Since > it is on the Windows NT installation CD-ROM, I click on the optical > drive. This only returns me to the Windows desktop and I don't get any > VirtualMedia Manager. > > I've plenty of memory assigned to this virtual system. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe: > mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
