"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ...

(Just for interest; I haven't played with virtual machines of any sort) Perhaps one of you who is running a virtual machine and
_doesn't_ have the problem of it only giving VGA (640x480 16 colours) could go into Display Properties, and tell us what hardware
the VM "thinks" it's driving?

My VPC machines use a virtual S3 Trio 32/64 PCI.
(The host box has a Radeon 9600. )


And, what the highest resolution/depth are available?

My virtual 98 install allows for 32-bit color and 1600 x 1200 screen
resolution, while the host currently only allows and is set at 1280 x 1024.

If I set the virtual OS to 1600 x 1200, the window that it runs in is bigger
than the physical monitor screen. There's no way to overcome the number
of pixels allowed on the physical machine. You can't have two different
resolutions on the same physical adpter, though you can emulate a different
color depth. (you won't see any increase in color depth if the VM is set
higher than the host)


And is that "virtual hardware" any relation to the actual video hardware on the host machine?

Only that you need the actual hardware to display what is on the virtual. The
guest OS has no knowledge of the physical hardware.