[CoLoCo] vbox resolution help

[Mike Stanczyk]

I'm late to the party here.  Jim, to be clear for me:
Which is your host OS?

I'm running VirtualBox on Windows(host) with Ubuntu as the Guest OS.
I didn't get the full resizing until I mounted the guest additions iso
and ran them in a xterm:
sudo bash ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run
and then rebooted ubuntu.

Mike

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Jim Hutchinson wrote:

> I have been playing more and more with vbox but one thing I cannot fix is
> the lame resolution. Every OS I try (all Linux based so far) ends up with an
> fairly unusable 800x600 resolution and even with guest additions installed I
> cannot get it do anything else. I also use vbox at work on a mac to run
> windows (needed for AD - blech) and it will scale the windows desktop to
> whatever size window I create. I'm not sure what version they installed at
> work (i.e. OSE or not). Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Jim (Ubuntu geek extraordinaire)
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