Nevermind–I got it to work!  I had to install VBoxGuestAdditions.  Not sure what that does, but it now works.

How about this one:
I played a game the other day and when it was UK’s turn (a computer), they industrial bomb Germany, and then in the non-combat phase the screen moves around a few times showing several of Japan’s territories (which seems odd), then goes back to showing the UK, and then does nothing.  There is a little arrow near the plane on the UK, and the Bomber is missing.  I have restarted the game (I saved it right before this) about 10 times, and the same thing happens every time.  I try to fix the file, but the add-on program says there is no corruption in the file.  So, is there nothing I can do to finish that game?

I have Windows Vista 64-bit, and I can get the game to work, but on a 23" monitor, it is a bit hard to play fullscreen mode.  So I installed Virtual Box and tried both Windows 7 and Windows XP, and with both, I get the following error when I try to run it:
    LIB_InitVideo: ERROR 0x887601b3
    Can’t lock Primary Surface!
So, it works on my machine, but not in a virtual machine on my machine.  Any ideas?

I only have one guess: “Can’t lock Primary Surface” may have to do with the fact that the game wants to lock the entire drawing surface, and somehow the virtual machine is seeing the actual video card (so the entire “screen”, not just the portion of its window), and the game is trying to lock access to the entire “screen”, which of course it can’t.

I tried running Virtual Box in fullscreen mode to see what happens, and that didn’t help.

I posted on the Virtual Box forums, but so far, the only response is the very unhelpful:
    “Forget it. Some games work in a VM, the mostly not.”

Ideas?