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Virtualization / Setting 4k resolution for VMWare guest

« on: August 16, 2024, 06:27:54 pm »

I recently acquired a thinkpad with a 4k screen. I have a OS/2 vm in the latest and greatest VMWare Workstation (which is nowadays free of charge for personal use). However I cannot find a way to make my full screen resolution available to the guest VM. I tried editing the vmx file, but the darn thing keeps reverting to 16MB of graphical memory, which obvious is not enough for 3840x2160. Most pages on the web advice to install VMWare tools in similar circumstances, however they are not available for OS/2.

Anyone got any clues on how to solve this problem?

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Programming / How does AVIO works?

« on: March 24, 2024, 05:37:42 pm »

I just read heard about advanced VIO, what I gathered so far, is that you supposedly can create an AVIO presentation space with VIOCreatePS (see https://ia801901.us.archive.org/13/items/OS21.xTechnicalDocumentation/64F0276_OS2_V1_2_PTI_Presentation_Manager_Programming_Reference_Vol_1.pdf page 467). If I understand this correctly it should be possible (in 16 bit apps at least) to incorporate an area in a PM application, that can be populated (updated) with VIO calls.

Anyone knows something about this? Maybe someone recalls an article or an example from back in the day?