Does anyone know how to lower monitor resolution in virtual XP?

[Via]

I'm trying to run Baldur's gate in virtual XP, and it installs and starts fine, but I can't lower my monitor's resolution below 1680x1050 so it crashes. My monitor is locked at that res when running virtual XP.

I've tried everything I can think of. Does anyone have any idea how to lower it?

 

[yinan]

Use a real virtualization product like VMware workstation or ESXi both allow you to do that.

 

[Nothinman]

Doesn't it automatically lower it if you just resize the window smaller?

 

[Fardringle]

Are you talking about the virtual machine XP that Microsoft provides for Windows 7? If so, just change the resolution the same way you would change it on a stand-alone Windows XP installation (right-click the desktop, click Properties, click the Settings tab, then move the slider for screen resolution).

 

[Via]

Yeah, that one.

I can't - it's locked in the left position at 1680x1050.

 

[her209]

Did you install the VMware Tools package (assuming its VMware)?

 

[Via]

No, I haven't tried that yet; I was hoping the Virtrual XP PC that you can download with Windows 7 would do the trick.

But the resolution thing has me stumped. I don't know why it's locked at 1680x1050.

If I can't figure this out I will try VMware.

 

[Fardringle]

Is the Virtual Machine window maximized? That's the only reason I can think of that it would be locked at the monitor's resolution.