Hello All,

This is my first posting as a Linux Newbie. I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 inside of a MS Virtual PC on my Vista machine. Everything seems to work beautifully and is stable. However, I would like to use a resolution higher than the current maximum of 800x600. I've poked around on the web and have tried various tips. I tried using the xrandr options which added a higher resolution mode, but when I would try to set the output to that resolution, I would get an error message to the effect that I could not exceed the current maximum of 800x600.

I tried to cobble parameter values together and create an xorg.conf file, but every iteration seems to produce a bunch of colorful vertical bars within my Virtual PC window, and I would have to blow away that virtual PC setup and rebuild it (along with reinstalling Ubuntu).

As I said, 800x600 is not a show stopper, but I would like to take advantage of the real estate I have with my display. These "fifty-five year old" eyes could benefit from the larger size.

FYI, I did take a stab at installing Virtual Box, but got the infamous "blue screen", so I would rather stick with what appears to be a stable virtual PC base.

Regards,

Craig

I think to get higher resolutions you have to install guest additions in your guest system. Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't support Linux guests, so there will not be another solution than: Use Virtualbox or VMware.
Sorry that I can't help more.

FYI,

In order to assist anyone in responding to me with some suggestions, here are some further details of my PC setup.

- Dell XPS 430
- Windows Vista
- Running Virtual PC (it does work with Vista)
- My monitor is a Dell 22" flat screen
- The device and driver is an ATI Radeon HD 3650 driver

As far as I can tell, I am up to date with the software upgrades for this version of Ubuntu (10.04).

Regards,

Craig

Can you be more specific with your hardware specs? As TobiSGD said above, you'll probably want to use different virtualization software such as VirtualBox or VMware. These both fully support Linux guest OSes. If your machine has the horsepower (I'm guessing it does if you can run Ubuntu in MS VirtualPC), you might want to give either one of those a try.

To all who sent their replies, thank you for your suggestions. I actually took what I believe to be the path of least resistance and just carved out space on my "D" drive and installed Ubuntu 10.04 using the Grub loader so that I can boot to whichever OS I need to use at the time. So now if I need to do some work within Windows, I just boot up Windows. If I want to gain more experience with Ubuntu, I boot up Ubuntu.

Thanks again.