I made the Windows XP desktop larger by changing the screen resolution. I don't like the way Windows XP captures the mouse (I need to work side by side in Windows XP and Windows 10 every day).

Is there any way to stop this?īefore finding this page I originally tried a fresh download of XP Mode to Oracle Virtualbox (before realising it might stop working after 30 days, which is no use to me). Fixing Scratchy Sound in Windows XP Guest on VMWare timekiller89 48 subscribers Subscribe 148 Share 20K views 5 years ago Since VMWare Workstation/Player 8, on all Windows versions after. Oracle Virtualbox didn't seem to capture the mouse, it worked better side-by-side with Windows 10 (more like Windows XP Mode + Windows 7 did). I was able to use the same VHD (created as per instructions in post 1 of this thread) into Oracle Virtualbox.Īlthough this is described as more basic, it seems to handle working in Windows XP and Windows 10 side-by-side in a much intuitive way. What I mean by 'side by side working more intuitive in VirtualBox' is this: Once booted in VirtualBox, it did require a repeat of the telephone activation done last night in HyperV (it complained 'you system has changed substantially since you activated it'), but I was able to do this by telephone as before. Hyper V captures the mouse and requires constant clicking on to release it. Please see the Ubuntu Forums too for some PulseAudio tweaking. Ubuntu 8.10 comes default with PulseAudio, using ALSA as output system for the VM will make the audio sound choppy, but using Pulse works a lot better. There is an option to change these keystrokes, but only to other collections of three keys. If the audio from the VM is choppy using the Host audio card, then you might have selected the wrong audio output. Oracle VirtualBox requires only to release the mouse (or sometimes it doesn't seem to require anything, I can switch between Windows XP and the host operating system just by moving the mouse, the same as I could with XP Mode in Windows 7).

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