>I have noted a strange behaviour in VPC:
>Sometrimes when I start a guest (XP-Pro) the initial boot screen is
>completely black with no text and then after a while the Windows XP
>startup screen appears with the progress bar.
>The really strange thing is that while the main window does not shopw
>any text I can see in the thumbnailo in VPC console that it displays
>text that changes while the main window is empty!
>
>Why is it so that the main windows does not show anything while the
>thumbnail does?

>On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:56:59 +0200, in microsoft.public.virtualpc, Bo
>Berglund <(email address - cut out)>, wrote
>
>>I have noted a strange behaviour in VPC:
>>Sometrimes when I start a guest (XP-Pro) the initial boot screen is
>>completely black with no text and then after a while the Windows XP
>>startup screen appears with the progress bar.
>>The really strange thing is that while the main window does not shopw
>>any text I can see in the thumbnailo in VPC console that it displays
>>text that changes while the main window is empty!
>>
>>Why is it so that the main windows does not show anything while the
>>thumbnail does?
>
>This is a really interesting one. So you are saying that you do not even
>get the BIOS display portion at boot?
>
>The implication is that screen display has been set of 'OFF' and I wonder
>how that could be this early in the game unless there is a display
>definition in the BIOS -- that is then overridden by Windows...........
>
>Observation says that those thumbnails are the result of display output,
>or more precisely, computer output which could actually bypass any screen
>output...........
>
>FACE

>On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:44:19 -0400, FACE <(email address - cut out)>
>wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:26:18 -0400, in microsoft.public.virtualpc, FACE
>><(email address - cut out)>, wrote
>>
>>>On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:56:59 +0200, in microsoft.public.virtualpc, Bo
>>>Berglund <(email address - cut out)>, wrote
>>>
>>>>I have noted a strange behaviour in VPC:
>>>>Sometrimes when I start a guest (XP-Pro) the initial boot screen is
>>>>completely black with no text and then after a while the Windows XP
>>>>startup screen appears with the progress bar.
>>>>The really strange thing is that while the main window does not shopw
>>>>any text I can see in the thumbnailo in VPC console that it displays
>>>>text that changes while the main window is empty!
>>>>
>>>>Why is it so that the main windows does not show anything while the
>>>>thumbnail does?
>>>
>>>This is a really interesting one. So you are saying that you do not even
>>>get the BIOS display portion at boot?
>>>
>>>The implication is that screen display has been set of 'OFF' and I wonder
>>>how that could be this early in the game unless there is a display
>>>definition in the BIOS -- that is then overridden by Windows...........
>>>
>>>Observation says that those thumbnails are the result of display output,
>>>or more precisely, computer output which could actually bypass any screen
>>>output...........
>>>
>>
>>I just looked at the BIOS of a DOS 6.22 VM. Go into the BIOS and make
>>sure that "Quiet Boot" is disabled. That is on a subscreen from "Advanced
>>-->Boot Settings Configuration.".
>>
>
>OK, but how can I get into the BIOS of the guest when all there is is
>a black screen???? The console thumbnail resolution is too small to
>enable use of that as a display.
>Really strange.
>However, my guest comes up afterwards and operates even though I feel
>that it is "flakey" in the responses. Basically I can do some tasks
>normally, but then all of a sudden it gets unresponsive for about 5
>seconds or so and then it comes back.
>The guest and host are both XP-Pro SP2. I have given the guest 512 Mb
>RAM out of the 2 Gb I have on the host. No other guests are running.
>
>And I am using VPC2004SP1 because this guest MUST communicate over the
>COM1 serial port and this does not work in VPC2007.

>On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:26:18 -0400, in microsoft.public.virtualpc, FACE
><(email address - cut out)>, wrote
>
>>On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:56:59 +0200, in microsoft.public.virtualpc, Bo
>>Berglund <(email address - cut out)>, wrote
>>
>>>I have noted a strange behaviour in VPC:
>>>Sometrimes when I start a guest (XP-Pro) the initial boot screen is
>>>completely black with no text and then after a while the Windows XP
>>>startup screen appears with the progress bar.
>>>The really strange thing is that while the main window does not shopw
>>>any text I can see in the thumbnailo in VPC console that it displays
>>>text that changes while the main window is empty!
>>>
>>>Why is it so that the main windows does not show anything while the
>>>thumbnail does?
>>
>>This is a really interesting one. So you are saying that you do not even
>>get the BIOS display portion at boot?
>>
>>The implication is that screen display has been set of 'OFF' and I wonder
>>how that could be this early in the game unless there is a display
>>definition in the BIOS -- that is then overridden by Windows...........
>>
>>Observation says that those thumbnails are the result of display output,
>>or more precisely, computer output which could actually bypass any screen
>>output...........
>>
>
>I just looked at the BIOS of a DOS 6.22 VM. Go into the BIOS and make
>sure that "Quiet Boot" is disabled. That is on a subscreen from "Advanced
>-->Boot Settings Configuration.".
>