Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>]

Alex Samad wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 04:33:32PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> > 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
>
> [snip]
>
> > > 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.
>
>
> have you tried hostkey + g (hostkey being r-ctrl), I find sometimes VB
> gets stuck and you have to press ctrl+g a few times


Oh, to answer your question, which I forgot to do in my previous post, 
no, pressing CTRL+g does nothing.

Mark Allums