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win98 vm

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by kingofgamemasters777, Oct 2, 2008.

  1. kingofgamemasters777

    kingofgamemasters777 Well-Known Member

    i installed windows 98 se on virtual box but the screen is stuck ant 600x800 with 12-bit colers how do i fix this?
     
  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    chances are you can't, thats probably all the virtual graphics card is capable of.
     
  3. kingofgamemasters777

    kingofgamemasters777 Well-Known Member

    but it runs linux os;s fine it just win98
     
  4. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    linux typically has lower minimum requirements.
     
  5. kingofgamemasters777

    kingofgamemasters777 Well-Known Member

    but it dos not show up in 600x800
     
  6. elk1007

    elk1007 Well-Known Member

    Try pressing Host+F.

    Sometimes the display adapter for VirtualBox (that's what I use) will control the size by the actual window size rather than by the in-OS slider display option.
    Mess with changing the actual size of the window outside of win98 itself.
     
  7. kingofgamemasters777

    kingofgamemasters777 Well-Known Member

    i tryed that but its still in 600x800
    note i installed 98 in non full screen mode could that be the problem?
     
  8. elk1007

    elk1007 Well-Known Member

    I swear I had this problem before.
    Pressing a host key fixed it.
    Try HOST + the alphabet.
    H?
     
  9. kingofgamemasters777

    kingofgamemasters777 Well-Known Member

    ugh i give up, i tryed every thing h+alphabet, tryed different garphic drivers, ect, so im going to try windows me now and if that dont work il just wait til i get ram and run xp on vbox
    ok i could not find a good winme iso so im moving on to 2000 but when i go to install it says "pleas insert windows 2000 pro cd in a drive" but i dont have the a drive mounted, so what is it asking for?

    never mind
     
  10. kingofgamemasters777

    kingofgamemasters777 Well-Known Member

    ubuntu vm

    ok heres the problem i cant tern on ubuntu (v8.04) visual effects in virtual box 2.0.2 when ever i try it says "Desktop effects could not be enabled" is there any way i can fix this or do i have to live with it?
     
  11. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    You probably have to live with it, VMs generally can't do more than basic framebuffer graphics.
     
  12. waylonn

    waylonn Well-Known Member

    What the hell is a Virtual Box anyway?
     
  13. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    virtual box is a program that allows you to run multiple different OSes on a singal machine at the same time, by creating 'virtual' computers with their own ram (a portion of the host PC ram) and hard disk (a file on the host PC hard disk) in a completely isolated environment.
     
  14. waylonn

    waylonn Well-Known Member

    Ah.. Okay.. should give that a try, I want to try linux, see how it works. Then I could just use my Windows Host PC for gaming etc.