[CoLoCo] vbox resolution help

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Mike Stanczyk <stanczyk at pcisys.net> wrote:

> 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, thanks for the help. I am running 64bit Ubuntu 8.10 as the host and at
the moment my guest OS is 32 bit Ubuntu 8.10 but there are several others
that I've played with with no success.

For the current example I did install the guest additions from a terminal
but with slightly different syntax (sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run).
However, I did receive the message that they installed successfully and
things like mouse integration work just fine. I have since rebooted both
host and guest with no change. I also use vbox on a mac at work and no
issues there with windows as host. I think it may be something to do with
using Linux as host but that's just a guess at the moment.

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