[CoLoCo] vbox resolution help

[Kevin Fries]

Jim,

I would place a sizable bet the problem is 64-bit vs 32-bit.

I run VBox all the time in a Ubuntu-32 host.  I run Windows XP guests and start them from command-line via an icon on my AWN bar ("VBoxManage startvm WinXP").  It works great both in windowed mode as well as seamless mode and full screen mode... neither of which work without guest additions working.  When in windowed mode I often run at 800x600 because it fits on my 1440x900 host screen the best, but have kicked the resolution up on occasion for certain programs.  All this on a 32-bit host, running the same Latitude D620 I think you are running.


Kevin Fries
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From: ubuntu-us-co-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-us-co-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jim Hutchinson [jim at ubuntu-rocks.org]
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 10:35 PM
To: Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team
Subject: Re: [CoLoCo] vbox resolution help

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