xdissent / ievms

Automated installation of the Microsoft IE App Compat virtual machines
http://xdissent.github.com/ievms
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How to change virtual machine memory settings? #242

Closed airblade closed 9 years ago

airblade commented 9 years ago

I downloaded IE9 with this script. When I fire it up in VirtualBox, the desktop is small (I guess about 600px wide) and unresizable. This makes testing web pages hard because you can only see a fraction of a page and have to scroll up and down and side to side all the time.

I tried to change the virtual machine's settings in VirtualBox to give it more video memory, on the hopeful assumption that doing so would allow me to enlarge the desktop. Is that correct?

As you can see it only has 32MB of video memory and 256MB overall. VirtualBox warns me that "Invalid settings detected" but won't allow me to change them.

How can I change these settings?

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P.S. Thank you for this fabulous script :)

airblade commented 9 years ago

I found the answer here: one has to power down the VM for it to be modifiable. Mine was in the 'saved' state.