Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:11:49 -0500
Mark Allums <mark@allums.com> wrote:
> Jack Schneider wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:33:32 -0500
> > Mark Allums <mark@allums.com> 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 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Hi, folks
> > I'm running VirtualBox 3.0.2 not the Debian -OSE edition, but
> > downloaded from the Sun Site.. Sun has precipitated a good number
> > of changes, Guest Additions work much better... I have resized
> > windows in M$, SuSE, without incident.
> > uname -r >2.6.26-2-amd64
> > FWIW
> > Jack
>
>
> I am Vista 64 SP2, VBox 3.0.2 (non-free), Debian amd64 guest, Squeeze
> with a few Sid bits. This includes Sid X.org, GNOME, and GCC 4.3.3,
> with Debian kernel 2.6.30-1 (which is Sid version of 2.6.30.5).
>
> # uname -a
> Linux patricia 2.6.30-1-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 3 12:28:22 UTC 2009
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Mark Allums
>
>
Mark, sorry I didn't mention it, I run Debian "Squeeze" as host...
Jack
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