[CoLoCo] vbox resolution help

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Aaron D. Gerber <gerberad at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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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Good to know. Maybe it is a 64bit host issue. However, what is the
difference between vbox 2 and vbox-ose that is in the ubuntu repo? Did you
download and install a different version? Maybe that's part of the issue. I
did increase video memory to 128mb which was the max allowed in vbox.

Thanks.

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