Methods and apparatus to provide dynamic messaging services

A system, comprising:

• a display attribute determiner to determine, in a pre-boot environment, supported dimensions for display of information on a display screen, and to generate restricted dimensions that are less than the supported dimensions, wherein the restricted dimensions define a boundary between a first screen portion and a second screen portion of the display screen;
• a virtual machine manager to provide the restricted dimensions to an operating system of a virtual machine supported by the virtual machine manager, and to prevent elimination of the first screen portion from the display screen;
• and
• a graphics renderer to display first information in the first screen portion and display second information in the second screen portion.

A computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable instructions which, when executed, cause a processor to:

• determine, in a pre-boot environment, supported dimensions for display of information on a display screen;
• generate, in the pre-boot environment, restricted dimensions that are less than the supported dimensions;
• provide the restricted dimensions to an operating system of a virtual machine supported by a virtual machine manager, wherein the restricted dimensions define a boundary between a first screen portion and a second screen portion;
• display first information in the first screen portion and displaying second information in the second screen portion;
• and
• prevent, via the virtual machine manager, elimination of the first screen portion from the display screen.