Full Screen on Ubuntu w/ XP as Guest OS

[wilso027]

I am using Dapper Ubuntu as my primary operating system and XP as my guest os. Ubuntu is running at a resolution of 1280x1024. When I try to put XP in full screen mode I get:

The XFree86-VidExtension feature is not activated in your primary operating system. Virtual Machine in fullscreen mode may behave unpredictably. Do you want to switch to fullscreen mode?"

Then I get the following message:

"Unable to switch to full screen mode. Primary operating system does not support screen resolution requested by guest operatng system. Select another resolution for the guest operating system or review your XWindows System Configuration."

I have the following in my xorg.conf file

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83
VertRefresh 50.0 - 76
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

I am using a resolution of 1280x1024 on both primary os, Ubuntu, and guest os, XP. Thanks for any help trying to get my guest os in full screen.

Allan

 

[wilso027]

So does anyone have their guest os fullscreen if they are using Linux as their primary OS? Am I the only one trying to do this or am I the only one with the problem.

Allan

 

[dglock2]

So does anyone have their guest os fullscreen if they are using Linux as their primary OS? Am I the only one trying to do this or am I the only one with the problem.

Allan

I had the same thing using ubuntu as the host. I haven't found a solution for it.

Using mepis or xandros as the host i can use full screen with no problems, so it seems to be some thing in the ubuntu os.

don

 

[Andrew @ Parallels]

Thanks for reporting - we will investigate this problem.