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Windows 2000 Screen resolution
Posted: 31. May 2009, 07:39
by Pyrarrows
Could anyone tell me if it would be possible to have Windows 2000 show at 1366x768? it's currently maxing out at 1360x768, which makes seamless mode look very odd. (Missing one window border, other side shows a small portion of the default blue desktop background). In normal Full-screen mode, there are 3 pixel wide black areas on each side of the screen, which is not nearly as noticeable as seamless mode.
I have raised the video memory, and the RAM, neither change changed anything.
Re: Windows 2000 Screen resolution
Posted: 31. May 2009, 15:19
by Perryg
I have seen this a couple of times here and if memory serves me they had to change a setting in their Compiz section of the host. Other fixes have been upgrading the VBox to a newer release. Ver 2.2.4 is out now. You can search the entire forum from Google using: YOUR KEYWORDS site:forums.virtualbox.org
Re: Windows 2000 Screen resolution
Posted: 31. May 2009, 21:03
by Gamesoul Master
A 15 second search turned up this post which is exactly what you need:
baf wrote:In the guest try:
start a command prompt
cd "program files\sun\virtualbox guest additions"
then use vboxcontrol excerpt from help.
VBoxControl.exe listcustommodes
VBoxControl.exe addcustommode <width> <height> <bpp>
VBoxControl.exe removecustommode <width> <height> <bpp>
VBoxControl.exe setvideomode <width> <height> <bpp> <screen>
You want to use that second line to add the resolution(s) you want to the list of available resolutions. In case you don't know, "<bpp>" is the color depth. So your line would look like "C:\Program Files\Sun\Virtualbox Guest Additions\VBoxControl addcustommode 1366 768 32". Or 1366 768 16 if you really want to use 16-bit color depth (almost unheard of these days, but that may not be as much the case with this being a VM).
Re: Windows 2000 Screen resolution
Posted: 31. May 2009, 22:07
by chungy
On Debian, he'll just need to simply type "VBoxManage" (not VBoxControl), no changing the directory needed.
Re: Windows 2000 Screen resolution
Posted: 2. Jun 2009, 02:47
by Pyrarrows
Thanks Gamesoul Master. Although it didn't work, I entered
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VBoxControl.exe setvideomode 1366 768 32
, but then it said 'Changing to 1360x768x32' which is what it has been maxing out at on my machine. I did a search on the VirtualBox screen resolution and found this:
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2047
basically Virtualbox doesn't work with screens that are the same size as mine due to a bug, according to that....
Can this bug be fixed?
it is keeping me from running the VM in both Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista.
At least OpenGL is working, I ran Doom 3 in a VM...