Bug#851124: wiki: please provide information for Debian-as-guest
Hello Daniel,
>OK, I also opened a bug report there:
wonderful
>and I'll send a reply there linking to this discussion.
thanks
>Could you add your own feedback there about what is expected to maximize
>the chances that the display appears correctly on first boot into a
>freshly built stretch system? Or does it only depend on the patching of
>Virtualbox and there is nothing that could be done in xorg or wayland to
>work around this seamlessly?
yes, patch the driver that comes with Debian, instead of using the virtualbox
one :)
(or seed the live with the virtualbox-guest-* stuff, you wouldn't be the first one
https://github.com/fedelibre/LilyDev/commit/8328fa6fdf595c136c3039186b63ab95db62aa52
>In those cases where the display doesn't work, is there anything that
>can be done to give more meaningful feedback? The flashing screen isn't
>great.
this is not something virtualbox can fix, because it isn't installed :p
>Should those links go into bug reports against the relevant packages so
>this can be followed through?
>
I replied there too :)
G.
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