[CoLoCo] vbox resolution help

[W S]

I've been using KVM, but I'll check this out.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/virtualbox/

Looks like it's GPL'd, and you can build from source, but they have a
different license for their binaries? Hmmm.

-W

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
>
>
> 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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