I'm running a Windows XP professional in a Virtual Box OSE on Suse Linux 10.3.
The windows working fine as if installed on a machine of its own, execpt, lately when I tried to
run a newly installed simulation game on it, it said "Train Simulator requires hardware accelerator".
I've been told to run dxdiag and under 'display' to enable the directx accelerator, but in device there is no
display device recogniced and all greyed out and in Windows device manager there is under
'other devices' a 'base system device' und linked to that a 'Video Controller (VGA compatible)', but both are
with a question mark and it says 'no driver installed, using generic vga driver'.
I tried to install the original Intel driver that came with the disk for my mainboard (my graphic adapter is onboard
Intel 865 G chipset) and I tried it in several ways - a) trying to install it as a driver for the questionable video controller
fails every time when it tries to read the .inf file saying that it does not contain hardware information for my device.
Then I tried b) too install the Intel driver by automatic setup, which went ok, but after rebooting virtual computer
the machine still is using the generic vga driver and not the native intel driver. Then, c) I managed actually
to follow a manual setup instruction for the intel driver which gave me a 'Intel 82865 G Graphics Controller' under
'Display-Adapters' in Windows Device manager, but like the Video controller, the Intel 81865 G comes with a question mark and
an error remark, saying 'This device cannot start (Code 10).
So, clueless now, since all other device and peripheral are recognized and working fine in my virtual box Win XP
I don't think this being a problem due to virtual box, but what else could it be? Actually under Linux
the hardware graphics adapter is working fine and recognised but not so in the Windows box, so the
hardware itself must be ok. I know this may not be a common setup but i hope that anyone came across this
before or has knowledge with graphic adapter issues under windows, if that may be the case. Thanks