I installed xubuntu under virtualbox in my widescreen laptop. But I was stuck with space wasted on both sides when I switched to fullscreen since default resolution is 4:3. The fix is quite simple though. Just taking advantage of the xrandr command… xrandr –newmode “1360×768” 84.75 1360 1432 1568 1776 768 771 781 798 -hsync…
I played some old Apple II games recently and applewin emulator works great in winxp under virtualbox for a while. (It is kind of funny and maybe partially ironic to run emulator under another virtual os.) However, the simulation window one day just disappeared. Even reinstalling the emulator doesn’t work, I could have restored to…
I more or less totally moved to Linux and only run windows under Virtualbox. I’m running Ubuntu 9.10 and VirtualBox 3.14. Usually it is great but occasionally it will give me different weird glitches. The most annoying one is that I can’t go to full resolution after swapping to fullscreen. It works initially after I…
I wasted a couple hours today trying to figure out why my guest winxp has no connection. It is the third ubuntu machines that I have installed a virtualbox with a guest winxp. I am very satisfied with virtualbox. It is very fast and I can do almost anything I need for a window machine….