XP Vga only after guest additions installation

[wolfenstein]

Hello,

I have following problem:

without guest installed I get VGA with 32bit in 1024, but it keeps asking for a video driver.
with guest install I only get 16 colour VGA in 640.

I cannot get it to run 32bit in 1024 without problems. What is missing?

This is my system:

Windows 10
i5 4x 3300mhz
12 GB RAM
Intel HD Graphics 530 onboard

I appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Wolf

[socratis]

With the VM shut down completely (not paused or saved), right-click on the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log". Save the "VBox.log" (just the first one), ZIP it and attach it in your response (see the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form).

[wolfenstein]

Here it is.

[mpack]

Somebody has really been messing with those graphics modes. I see at one point that a 16bpp mode has been selected - neither VirtualBox nor the XP guest would ever choose such a mode itself. Usually that mode gets chosen because a user didn't understand that 16bpp is not the same as 16 color mode. 16bpp gives 2^16 colors = 65536 colors. 16 color mode is 4bpp.

If you want acceptable performance, especially since you also enabled 3D acceleration, then the XP guest must use the same color depth as the host. That almost certainly means a 32bpp mode.

Note that installing/uninstalling the Guest Additions will not have any useful effect here. The XP guest remembers the previous mode for every device, so as soon as you reinstall the VBox GAs, XP will revert to the mode last used for the GAs.

I would disable 3D acceleration for now, install the GAs, then choose a sensible video mode while the GAs are active. I.e. a 32bpp color mode.