[CoLoCo] vbox resolution help

[Aaron D. Gerber]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>wrote:

>
> Actually, it's on my desktop which I built and has a dual core Athlon.
> However, since I haven't seen any success stories with running Linux on
> Linux with scalable resolution I am inclined to think that is the issue
> rather than 32bit vs 64bit. Everyone who has this working is running windows
> as either guest or host. However, thanks for the tip. I'll try on a 32bit
> host OS and see if it works.
>

Linux on Linux with scalable resolution works for me. I'm using Virtualbox 2
with a Ubuntu 8.10 host  (32-bit i386 with 1920x1200 resolution) with
guests: Windows XP (working full-screen scalable resolution and coherence
mode), LinuxMint (working full-screen scalable resolution), OpenSUSE
(working fullscreen scalable resolution), Mandriva and and Fedora I have not
be able to get scalable resolution working yet. OpenSUSE required a package
that was not in it's repo and it took me a while to realize that I needed to
increase the video memory...
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