Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>]

Chris wrote:
> On Monday 03 August 2009, goran@dobosevic.com wrote:
> > Chris wrote:
> > > I am trying to get Screen resize and Seamless mode working on Lenny guest
> > > systems to no avail.
> > >
> > > I have tried insalling the guest-utils packages, as well as the
> > > guest-additions the manual way with m-a.  They install fine, but
> > > sreen-resize and seamless mode don't work.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have this working at all?  I've tried various xorg.conf files
> > > with the video driver and no screen resolutions.
> > >
> > > I am running virtualbox-ose 2.1.4 from lenny-backports on the host.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Chris
> > I also have same problem.
> > I have Debian Sid LXDE, Debian Sid XFCE and Debian Sid KDE as a guest.
> > They were first Lenny and screen size was to big so I was edit xorg.conf
> > and it was fine. After upgrade to Sid all of them have to small screen
> > with black frame around (800x600 on 15" laptop, native resolution is
> > 1024x768). Editing xorg.conf doesn't help any more.
> > Bye,
> > Goran Dobosevic
> > Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com
> >   English: www.dobosevic.com/en/
>
> Lets see if anyone has it working!  I have some SIDUX guests (09-01, 09-02) 
> that work...

I have the same problem.  An update to xorg occuring at approximately 
the same time as an upgrade of VirtualBox has caused VBox to turn off 
dynamic resizing, and nothing I can think of will bring it back. 
Editing xorg.conf is futile. Reinstalling the additions does nothing. 
The screen resolutions allowed are 800x600 or 640x480.  It is very 
frustrating.

Mark Allums