Bug#851124: wiki: please provide information for Debian-as-guest

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

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.