I had a CD at home with "Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1a" from an old computer so I gave that a try in the laptop as a guest OS. Resolution switching works fine with that. The only remaining question is, will it work when updated to SP2?
To sum up, with regard to video resolution switching of Windows XP guests with VirtualBox: The following work as guest operating systems (guest additions installed): -Windows XP Professional Version 2002 -Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1a The following does not work (video resolution can not be changed). Guest additions installed: -Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 On 1/25/07, Carsten Payenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Glenn, > > yes, both (host and guest) are Win XP Home SP2 German, Guest Additions > installed. > > I have the same problem at the moment with the state "Aborted". > Also, I receive a "Problem report to MS" on shutting down the guest... > > So, maybe it really is a problem of the guest Win Version as you described. > > I do have an old Win 2000 somewhere and will give it a try using the same > config next weekend. > Maybe it will work with that - and if yes, VirtualBox seems to have a bug... > > It's a little bit annoing to play around with a virtual machine in 640 x > 480... ;) > > Thanks and best regards > Carsten > > > 2007/1/25, Glenn Johnson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 19:00 +0100, carsten.payenberga wrote: > > > Hi @all! > > > > > > I'm using VirtualBox at Win XP host and Win XP also as guest OS with the > GUI > > > supplied. > > > > > > If I change the resolution to another value than 640 x 480, the only > thing I > > > can see then is the background picture. > > > There is no task-list any more, no 'Start' button, no Icons. > > > Even on right-click there is no Popup-Menu. > > > > > > I didn't try it in VRDP-Mode so far, but I would like to use VirtualBox > with > > > the GUI. > > > > > > Any suggestions, someone? > > > > I do not have any suggestions but I can add some data points. I too am > > seeing the problem that you describe but with a different setup. I have > > a laptop with a 1280x800 screen and an NVidia graphics card. The host OS > > is Ubuntu 6.10 and the guest is Windows XP-SP2 Home Edition. This system > > exhibits the problem you describe. I just tried this out on a system at > > work. That system has a standard VESA resolution of 1280x1024 with an > > MGA graphics card. The host OS is Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and the guest is > > Windows XP Professional Version 2002 (pretty old). That system works > > fine for dynamic resolution changing. Also, when I shut down the guest > > on the laptop (with the video problem), the reported state in the > > VirtualBox manager says "Aborted" rather than "Powered Off". That is not > > the case for the system work (without the video problem). Is your Win XP > > guest by any chance the Home Edition? I am wondering if that is the > > problem. > > > > -- > > Glenn Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vbox-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > > -- Glenn Johnson _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
