On 10/26/2009 10:49 AM, Fulko Hew wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:36 AM, David <dgboles(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 10/26/2009 10:30 AM, Fulko Hew wrote:
>
>
> Three related questions:
>
> 1) Have you installed the GuestAdditions?
Nope, but I have now, and I'll look into it.
> 2) Have you switched to the fullscreen display mode?
Nope, but I see in the documentation that there is a way
to reconfig the OS to take advantage of 'full screen mode'.
(Just going into full screen mode isn't enough.)
> 3) Did you actually read the instructions? :-)
As an co-worker said ~25 years ago:
"If you have to read the book... its too damn complicated.".
I've used that as a design guideline ever since, along with:
"If you have to ask me a question... I didn't do my job right."
... snip ...
But in the end, my rant isn't with VirtualBox,
its with the application developers.
But from the way that you wrote this it sounded more like pebcak. :-)
Virtualbox, when configured correctly and in fullscreen mode, looks just
like a 'real' install of the guest OS. The only way there could be
sliders on the right side or the left side of the application windows
would be if that was a normal display. An application that was in a
windowed (not fullscreen) mode. Also note that the Guest OS needs to be
configured correctly too.
As for the instructions? Virtualbox has some of the very best
instructions that I have ever seen. Don't think of Virtualbox as running
another application on your OS. Think of it as running a different OS on
your OS.
--
David