XP Video Driver

[kromberg]

First off, I want to say how completely impressed with VirtualBox I am. Excellent work to all the developers XP running under VirtualBox has pretty darn good performance in that there are only sometime I can notice lag.

I have XP running as a guest on a Fedora host. The video driver XP has installed is basic VESA driver because it can not figure out the video card installed. I was wondering what you be a good video driver to use to get better video resolution on the XP guest. Here is the specs on the Fedora host:

Fedora 8 x86_64
VirtualBox 2.1.2
Dual 270 Opterons
8GB ram
ATI X1650 256MB Video Card ( using the ATI Linux Drivers )

The XP guest is set up to use 3GB of RAM and 128MB of video memory with 3d acceleration enable.

TIA,
Keith

[stefan.becker]

Install the Guest Additions.

[kromberg]

That did the trick. Thanks

[Ukito]

Install the Guest Additions, and my xp crashed

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00:01:11.859 PCNet#0: Init: ss32=1 GCRDRA=0x0593a420[64] GCTDRA=0x0593a020[64]
00:01:14.200 Audio: set_record_source ars=0 als=0 (not implemented)
00:01:14.200 Audio: set_record_source ars=0 als=0 (not implemented)
00:01:25.970 PCNet#0: Init: ss32=1 GCRDRA=0x0593a420[64] GCTDRA=0x0593a020[64]
00:02:12.690 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=10120000 w=1024 h=768 bpp=32 cbLine=0x1000
00:02:12.737 OpenGL Warning: !!!FAILED!!! Render SPU: SetWindowPos (380c96, 0, 0, 0, 0)
00:02:12.950 OpenGL Warning: !!!FAILED!!! Render SPU: SetWindowPos (380c96, 0, 0, 0, 0)
00:02:52.660 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=00000000 w=720 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0
00:02:52.683 OpenGL Warning: !!!FAILED!!! Render SPU: SetWindowPos (380c96, 0, 0, 0, 0)
00:02:52.683 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=10120000 w=800 h=600 bpp=32 cbLine=0xC80
00:02:52.710 OpenGL Warning: !!!FAILED!!! Render SPU: SetWindowPos (380c96, 0, 0, 0, 0)
00:03:33.538 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=10120000 w=800 h=600 bpp=32 cbLine=0xC80
00:03:33.541 OpenGL Warning: !!!FAILED!!! Render SPU: SetWindowPos (380c96, 0, 0, 0, 0)
00:03:33.685 OpenGL Warning: !!!FAILED!!! Render SPU: SetWindowPos (380c96, 0, 0, 0, 0)

[stefan.becker]

Be more specific.

Version, guest configuration and exact description when crash appears.

[cwang]

Hey =) VRbox ver. 3.2.10 32bits on Slax 6.1.2 host, win xp 32bit home as guest.

ok i installed the guest add on's in safe mode and xp home sp 2 says that there is a fx card now.. but i try to load a game (phantasy star BlueBurst "game gaurd bypass") and it cant even open...(the games error log says it cant find a fx card at all) Im a complet noob @ posting error reports as nothing else seems to mess up at all (love vrbox w/ xp =D) and i dont know ware thay would be located to DL anyway ><. just woundering if theres anything else i would have to do to try and get this game to find a the card.

Computer: CPU Type Intel Pentium dual-core CPU/Speed T4200/@2.00GHz
GPU/VPU Intel GMA 4500M

Set on guest: single core Intel Pentium @ 1.99Ghz
GPU/VPU: Vrbox plug-in

I did install DX from m!cro$oft and still nothing.
any help would be much loves =D

[cwang]

forgot to post that i also needed VRbox ver 1.6.2 to get the other one working (was a dependents for other to work)

[xavit]

Install the Guest Additions.

Same scenario. It works fine for me too. Tks.