Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#16537 new defect
Hgh screen resoluton on a MS-DOS 6.22/Win 3.1 VM
| Reported by: | astrohart | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | GUI | Version: | VirtualBox 5.1.14 |
| Keywords: | monitor, display, screen resolution, MS-DOS 6.22, dos, windows, Windows 3.1, 3.1, 6.22 | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Windows |
Description
Hi all,
Back when I was a kid, oh, about sometime in the mid 90s if you can go back in the "wayback machine" with me, I thought 640x480 was all the screen resolution I'd ever need. My huge CRT displayed Windows 3.1 just fine back then, or so I thought.
Now, flash forward to 2017 and I have a spiffy 27-inch monitor on my computer at work. This computer hosts a VirtualBox VM running MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1. I am needing access to yesteryear for my job (!) because of the software this company maintains for some of its customers who, apparently, like running MS-DOS 6.22 just fine, thank you very much! :-)
So, I spun up a Oracle VM VirtualBox running MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 thanks to some handy dandy tutorial and disk-image websites that I found. Now, however, it will not allow me to change the screen resolution up beyond 640x480, which on my spiffy 27 inch monitor with its 2560x1440 resolution, looks soooo tiny. Entering scaled mode does not really help, since now everything just is stretched accordingly (i.e., the Program Manager still has a small UI, just stretched and scaled into a bigger window.)
Is there any way I can tune my VM to have a higher screen resolution (i.e., smaller pixels)? I seem to recall Windows 3.1 being responsive to those settings back in the day, but I can't quite get my head around it.
May I suggest something? It's usually better and faster, if problems like this one (configuration, question) get first addressed in the forums (https://forums.virtualbox.org/). More than 95% of the issues are resolved over there, which keeps the developers focusing on the bug fixes and enhancements, and there is no need for another ticket to keep track of. For example, yours is most probably not a bug and someone from the developers has to deal with it and close it as "Invalid".
So, if you can, please open a new thread in the Windows Guests section of the forums.
Be sure to say that you came from the bugtracker and include the ticket #.