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07-07-2008
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| | Fullscreen - Widescreen I wanted to make a comment about the versions of Virtual PC available. I am a heavy user of it for development purposes as well as sales/demo. One problem that I have - and this is a big concern for me - is the lack of full screen widescreen support built in. If using a laptop with a wider aspect ratio, going to full screen - the Guest OS's resolution remains the same - with the remainder of the screen staying black. For those of us using it as a production-level support tool - this is one of my greatest annoyance. If anyone at Microsoft reads - this - please please do something about it. Thanks - great product otherwise. |
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07-07-2008
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| | Re: Fullscreen - Widescreen On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 08:14:04 -0700, Chris Kadel <Chris Kadel@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >I wanted to make a comment about the versions of Virtual PC available. I am >a heavy user of it for development purposes as well as sales/demo. One >problem that I have - and this is a big concern for me - is the lack of full >screen widescreen support built in. If using a laptop with a wider aspect >ratio, going to full screen - the Guest OS's resolution remains the same - >with the remainder of the screen staying black. > >For those of us using it as a production-level support tool - this is one of >my greatest annoyance. If anyone at Microsoft reads - this - please please >do something about it. > >Thanks - great product otherwise. resolutions. -- Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ I do not work for Microsoft. |
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07-14-2008
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| | Re: Fullscreen - Widescreen "Steve Jain" <noreply.-@-.essjae.com> wrote in message news:6tk47498td7e11a9e7aka33a843huo1m2r@xxxxxx Quote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 08:14:04 -0700, Chris Kadel <Chris > Kadel@xxxxxx> wrote: > Quote: >>I wanted to make a comment about the versions of Virtual PC available. I >>am >>a heavy user of it for development purposes as well as sales/demo. One >>problem that I have - and this is a big concern for me - is the lack of >>full >>screen widescreen support built in. If using a laptop with a wider aspect >>ratio, going to full screen - the Guest OS's resolution remains the same - >>with the remainder of the screen staying black. >> >>For those of us using it as a production-level support tool - this is one >>of >>my greatest annoyance. If anyone at Microsoft reads - this - please >>please >>do something about it. >> >>Thanks - great product otherwise. > If you use RDP into the VM, this allows you to use widescreen > resolutions. the other isn't and you want to display on both screens or switch the virtual PC machine from one to the other? Seems to me having to use Remote Desktop is sort of absurd. I almost bought a second monitor over the 4th (big sale at Dell) and it would have been wide screen not because I like widescreen..I don't...but because that is all there is now in the UltraSharp line from Dell. Quote: > -- > Cheers, > Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP > http://vpc.essjae.com/ > I do not work for Microsoft. |
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07-14-2008
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| | Re: Fullscreen - Widescreen On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:38:47 -1000, "Melelina" <melelina@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > >"Steve Jain" <noreply.-@-.essjae.com> wrote in message >news:6tk47498td7e11a9e7aka33a843huo1m2r@xxxxxx Quote: >> On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 08:14:04 -0700, Chris Kadel <Chris >> Kadel@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Quote: >>>I wanted to make a comment about the versions of Virtual PC available. I >>>am >>>a heavy user of it for development purposes as well as sales/demo. One >>>problem that I have - and this is a big concern for me - is the lack of >>>full >>>screen widescreen support built in. If using a laptop with a wider aspect >>>ratio, going to full screen - the Guest OS's resolution remains the same - >>>with the remainder of the screen staying black. >>> >>>For those of us using it as a production-level support tool - this is one >>>of >>>my greatest annoyance. If anyone at Microsoft reads - this - please >>>please >>>do something about it. >>> >>>Thanks - great product otherwise. >> If you use RDP into the VM, this allows you to use widescreen >> resolutions. >What if you have dual monitors and dual desktops and one is widescreen and >the other isn't and you want to display on both screens or switch the >virtual PC machine from one to the other? Seems to me having to use Remote >Desktop is sort of absurd. If you want to run a VM on two screens you will also need to use RDP. VPC will work in a dual monitor environment but only full-screen on one monitor. You could try VM Ware Workstation if VPC is not meeting your needs, as it supports dual monitor options. The limitation is related to DirectX. IIRC, there are some older threads discussing this. I doubt you'll see this change until there's a new version of VPC, since it would require extensive reworking of VPC's video architecture. -- Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ I do not work for Microsoft. |
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