On 09/11/2014 22:27, Paul wrote:
Brian Gregory wrote:
On 08/11/2014 14:29, Jeff Gaines wrote:
On 08/11/2014 in message Bob Henson
wrote:

Hmm, it would appear I can't do that with the VM player - I have to
fork
out £160 quid for the paid version.

Bob

How about VirtualBox:
https://www.virtualbox.org/

It's a Yorkshireman's favourite price :-)


Yes I have Windows 10 TP running quite nicely in a VirtualBox 4.3.18 VM.
The guest additions install and work too.
The only odd thing is that I can't get the video display in the
Virtual machine to be any size other than the standard 4:3 sizes
800*600, 1024*768, 1152*864 etc.


In the Guest Device Manager, check to see if the Virtualbox driver is
present for the video.

In the Guest machine settings, make sure the frame buffer memory
allocation is big enough. There are also options there to enable
experimental Direct3D support and the like.

The Win10 VESA fallback driver, would do 1024*768 here, so I
recognize the symptoms. Win8 did the same thing. Previous OSes
like WinXP, the fallback driver might do 800x600 or 640x480.
Which is why I'd be checking Device Manager in your Guest, to
see what driver is being used for video.

The fallback driver gets used for my FX5200 card,
since there is no driver from the manufacturer for it.
In the Win10 Preview, a trip to Windows Update revealed
an ATI/AMD driver for my HD6450, which fixed the resolution
issue in a real, physical Win10 Preview installation. So you
should be able to whip that install into shape, one way or another.
There is bound to be a solution.

Paul

It's using "VirtualBox Graphics Adapter for Windows 8"

I think that probably when they added support for Win10TP to the guest
additions for VirtualBox 4.3.18 they didn't quite get everything working.

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