JerryI
March 18th, 2009, 09:36 PM
Hardy 64 - VirtualBox with XP - Nvidia TwinView on two 22-inch Acer monitors
Problem: I start VirtualBox and adjust its window to a respectable portion of the left monitor, say 40-50 percent. Then when I start XP in the window, it blooms out to a black screen across the whole 2-monitor display with a small (maybe 800 x 500 pixels) XP window smack in the middle, bridging the two monitors.
Question 1: How can I get XP to stay in the VirtualBox window that I set up? I want to see other stuff besides XP, which is why I have 40 inches of horizontal viewing area.
After playing around with the settings for nvidia, I found that I can set it for a couple dual display options besides to twin view, allowing me to start Virtual Box on either screen, but the app grabs one whole monitor, although it really only uses about 30 percent of the screen. Can I fix it to share the monitor with other apps? How?
Problem: I start VirtualBox and adjust its window to a respectable portion of the left monitor, say 40-50 percent. Then when I start XP in the window, it blooms out to a black screen across the whole 2-monitor display with a small (maybe 800 x 500 pixels) XP window smack in the middle, bridging the two monitors.
Question 1: How can I get XP to stay in the VirtualBox window that I set up? I want to see other stuff besides XP, which is why I have 40 inches of horizontal viewing area.
After playing around with the settings for nvidia, I found that I can set it for a couple dual display options besides to twin view, allowing me to start Virtual Box on either screen, but the app grabs one whole monitor, although it really only uses about 30 percent of the screen. Can I fix it to share the monitor with other apps? How?