VIRTUALBOX MAC OS X SCREEN VERY SMALL 1080P

VIRTUALBOX MAC OS X SCREEN VERY SMALL 1080P

While playback of a 1080p high definition Windows Media file in XP Pro was quite good, that same video completely crashed the virtual machine in 32-bit Windows 7 and played back very slowly in 64-bit Windows 7. Overall, video playback is disappointing in VirtualBox. It took only seconds to launch Office 2007 applications, responded reasonably to scrolling through a graphics-rich Word document, and opened and calculated a complex Excel worksheet rapidly. The program is plenty fast for standard office tasks. I found the new VirtualBox slightly faster than the last version, but it’s still noticeably slower than either Parallels or Fusion. When you click on any one Windows window, all of them come to the foreground, which makes Seamless mode less useful.

Seamless mode isn’t as well integrated as its counterparts in Fusion and Parallels: Separate Windows programs don’t become separate application windows in Seamless mode. It has windowed, full screen, and integrated (which VirtualBox calls Seamless) views of your guest operating systems. Once it’s installed, VirtualBox 3.1 looks much like the last version. Note also that unlike Parallels and Fusion, VirtualBox won’t let you install OS X Server as a guest operating system, nor can you use a Boot Camp Windows installation as a virtual machine. Those chores aren’t that hard, but they make VirtualBox harder to use than those other two.

Virtualbox mac os x screen very small