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Terrible screen colors with XP-Home guest and VMA installed

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 01/27/2009
From: Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

I had to investigate a problem concerning a PC with XP-Home pre SP2 so
I created a new guest and installed XP-Home (localized Swedish MSDN
edition) on it.
When all was done I decided to also have mouse integration so I used
the Action menu to install the VMA. After the install successfully
finished a reboot was commanded and when it came back up the screen
was reduced to 600x800 with 4 bit color depth!!!!
I have tried changing the guest screen handling to "best performance"
and restarted again, but to no avail. :-(
And I don't even get mouse integration for that matter!
I am running VPC2007SP1

Uninstalled VMA and now the screen is OK again, but of course no mouse
integration...

Finally tried to install the VMA from VPC2004SP1, which I have saved.
Lo-and-behold!
With the old VMA I have my screen resolution and color depth intact
and I also have mouse integration!

Must be something seriously broken with the VPC2007SP1 additions....

--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)

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RE: Terrible screen colors with XP-Home guest and VMA installed

Sent: 01/26/2009
From: -=ed
Message:

I had the same problem, and could never figure it out.

I just did a few reinstalls until it worked correctly again.

I still have a few networking dealies like this to figure out, or work around.
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..
-=ed
..

"Bo Berglund" wrote:

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> I had to investigate a problem concerning a PC with XP-Home pre SP2 so
> I created a new guest and installed XP-Home (localized Swedish MSDN
> edition) on it.
> When all was done I decided to also have mouse integration so I used
> the Action menu to install the VMA. After the install successfully
> finished a reboot was commanded and when it came back up the screen
> was reduced to 600x800 with 4 bit color depth!!!!
> I have tried changing the guest screen handling to "best performance"
> and restarted again, but to no avail. :-(
> And I don't even get mouse integration for that matter!
> I am running VPC2007SP1
>
> Uninstalled VMA and now the screen is OK again, but of course no mouse
> integration...
>
> Finally tried to install the VMA from VPC2004SP1, which I have saved.
> Lo-and-behold!
> With the old VMA I have my screen resolution and color depth intact
> and I also have mouse integration!
>
> Must be something seriously broken with the VPC2007SP1 additions....
>
> --
>
> Bo Berglund (Sweden)
>

RE: Terrible screen colors with XP-Home guest and VMA installed

Sent: 02/17/2009
From: Mike
Message:

I am having the same problem. I rolled back my video driver after installing
VMA and the display settings went back to normal, showing up to 32-bit color
depth. However, when I go to full-screen mode, the window stays the same
size and the rest of the screen turns black. The only way I have found to
correct this problem is to uninstall VMA.

"Bo Berglund" wrote:

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RE: Terrible screen colors with XP-Home guest and VMA installed

Sent: 02/17/2009
From: -=ed
Message:

I solved the problem by reinstalling VPC a few times and installing the VMA

I'm always having some sort of problem or another.

Once I have a good install, I copy the vhd to a storage directory, and
start with the working copy and rebuild.

Any important build gets backed up.

I wish I understood what was going on.

--
..
-=ed
..

"Mike" wrote:

Show quoted text

> I am having the same problem. I rolled back my video driver after installing
> VMA and the display settings went back to normal, showing up to 32-bit color
> depth. However, when I go to full-screen mode, the window stays the same
> size and the rest of the screen turns black. The only way I have found to
> correct this problem is to uninstall VMA.
>
> "Bo Berglund" wrote:
>
> > I had to investigate a problem concerning a PC with XP-Home pre SP2 so
> > I created a new guest and installed XP-Home (localized Swedish MSDN
> > edition) on it.
> > When all was done I decided to also have mouse integration so I used
> > the Action menu to install the VMA. After the install successfully
> > finished a reboot was commanded and when it came back up the screen
> > was reduced to 600x800 with 4 bit color depth!!!!
> > I have tried changing the guest screen handling to "best performance"
> > and restarted again, but to no avail. :-(
> > And I don't even get mouse integration for that matter!
> > I am running VPC2007SP1
> >
> > Uninstalled VMA and now the screen is OK again, but of course no mouse
> > integration...
> >
> > Finally tried to install the VMA from VPC2004SP1, which I have saved.
> > Lo-and-behold!
> > With the old VMA I have my screen resolution and color depth intact
> > and I also have mouse integration!
> >
> > Must be something seriously broken with the VPC2007SP1 additions....
> >
> > --
> >
> > Bo Berglund (Sweden)
> >

RE: Terrible screen colors with XP-Home guest and VMA installed

Sent: 03/07/2009
From: "murat"<(email address - cut out)>
Message:

install XP SP2, then VMA

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Re: Terrible screen colors with XP-Home guest and VMA installed

Sent: 03/07/2009
From: Bo Berglund <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:22:32 GMT, "murat"<(email address - cut out)>
wrote:

1) You are way behind in your reply to this. It happened months ago...

2) The whole purpose was to check the behaviour of Pre-SP2 XP, so
installing SP2 on the guest defeats this purpose.
One of the main uses of VPC is to be able to run various old operating
system versions to test that software operates correctly. But it
appears that the additions that come with VPC2007 is not in this
category at all, they require a Windows version on the guest that is
much more recent than the test needs!

--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)

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>
>> I had to investigate a problem concerning a PC with XP-Home pre SP2 so
>> I created a new guest and installed XP-Home (localized Swedish MSDN
>> edition) on it.
>> When all was done I decided to also have mouse integration so I used
>> the Action menu to install the VMA. After the install successfully
>> finished a reboot was commanded and when it came back up the screen
>> was reduced to 600x800 with 4 bit color depth!!!!
>> I have tried changing the guest screen handling to "best performance"
>> and restarted again, but to no avail. :-(
>> And I don't even get mouse integration for that matter!
>> I am running VPC2007SP1
>>
>> Uninstalled VMA and now the screen is OK again, but of course no mouse
>> integration...
>>
>> Finally tried to install the VMA from VPC2004SP1, which I have saved.
>> Lo-and-behold!
>> With the old VMA I have my screen resolution and color depth intact
>> and I also have mouse integration!
>>
>> Must be something seriously broken with the VPC2007SP1 additions....
>>
>> --
>>
>> Bo Berglund (Sweden)
>
>install XP SP2, then VMA
>

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