![]() ![]() I can’t get the video to go full-screen in VirtualBox full-screen video for the VM works perfectly in VMWare but I’m sure I will eventually figure it out. And everything just worked after I installed it. Let me tell you, Windows 8.1 runs like a champ in Oracle VirtualBox! Everything is FAST! It was very easy to configure. But I got tired of having to shut down the computer, switch hard drives, then boot it back up again. I kept my old hard drive around, the one with Mint 18.1 installed on it, in case I ever needed to run Windows. (I know for sure that version 14 ran well with Mint 18.1.) As I recall, all of them ran well with Mint 18.1. ![]() I tried VMWare versions 14, 15, and 16 with the newer versions of Mint none of them ran well. ![]() Basically, something in VMWare didn’t interact well with the newer version of Mint, and whenever I ran my Windows VM, it would hang – in fact, it had slowed to a crawl. But when I upgraded to anything newer than 18.1, I had problems with VMWare Workstation Player. Everything ran perfectly when I was running Mint 18.1. I run Windows 8.1 in a virtual machine in my Linux computer. Why did I stick with 18.1 for so long? One reason – VMWare Workstation Player. I used to run Mint 18.1, but when support ended, I decided to upgrade to the latest version of Mint, which at the time was 20.1. The OS on my main computer is Linux Mint 20.1, with the xfce interface. I have decided to switch from VMWare Workstation Player to Oracle VirtualBox, and here is why. ![]()
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