> Make sure your host's drivers are up to date, especially the video
> driver.
> A Windows guest can use 3GB+ of ram and with 4GB on the host you
> could allocate 2GB to an XP Pro guest. I allocate that much to a
> Vista Ultimate x86 guest.

>I have vista business as the host and xppro as the guest. I was
> downloading the 92 upgrades from ms for xp pro sp2 (my $288 newly
> purchased full version of xpPro since the newly purchased $139 oem
> version would not install) and my dialup apparently lost it's
> connection causing the process to stop. Eventually the vista
> screensaver kicked and because I was running full screen I had
> apparently no way to touch the machine -- no keys or mouse seemed to
> work. I think the screensaver had the focus on vista but the guest was
> in control of the keyboard and mouse. I tried the alt-enter which
> should have switched me to a small screen but it didn't work. I've
> since turned off the screensaver on vista but that's pretty stupid to
> have a screensaver kick in when the host has the whole screen. Has
> anyone else run into this or did the machine maybe just lock up? How do
> others deal with screensavers on the host -- and also power settings,
> certainly don't want the host to go into sleep mode unless the guest is
> inactive.
>
> Also when I run in full screen (which is probably how I would most like
> to run) and the guest does a restart, the screen comes up all screwed
> up until I switch to a window and back again? Has there been no fix for
> this in all this time (more than a year that vpc2007 has been out)?
>
> Anyone know if vmware has any of these problems?
>
> Anyone know if vista 32 business can use 3gigs of ram--or even 4gigs?
> My machine could accept up to 8 gigs but I know 32-bit windows
> certainly can't use more that 4gigs top, but more than 2 would be more
> convenient for program development in a vm. I'd like to give xppro a
> full 2 gigs.
>
> --
>

> Colin Barnhorst wrote:
>
>> Make sure your host's drivers are up to date, especially the video
>> driver.
>
> It's a new machine (less than 3 months old) and I already had to
> reinstall vista business because it crashed. Anyway I had to install
> the video card driver right from the manufacturer because it was
> missing from machine mfg's driver's disk.
>
> A search on google found this a common unresolved problem, i.e. losing
> screen settings when restarting after shutting down in full screen
> mode. When it first happened it was on a win98 vm but it does it every
> time on xp-pro as well. I've started running in a not quite full screen
> vm. It is a problem to accidentally click the close x when you intended
> clicking a full screen application's close x. I've just started using
> vm's for my normal work and I've already spent three days installing
> various utilities and programs and haven't even started installing tthe
> compilers yet. Still, it looks like the way to go.
>
>> A Windows guest can use 3GB+ of ram and with 4GB on the host you
>> could allocate 2GB to an XP Pro guest. I allocate that much to a
>> Vista Ultimate x86 guest.
>
> That's great to know. Thanks, I'll grab two more gigs.
>
> Joe

>Also when I run in full screen (which is probably how I would most like
>to run) and the guest does a restart, the screen comes up all screwed
>up until I switch to a window and back again? Has there been no fix for
>this in all this time (more than a year that vpc2007 has been out)?
>Anyone know if vmware has any of these problems?
>