Auto-VirtualBox!

[Derek Broughton]

Mike McMullin wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 20:41 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Derek Broughton<derek at pointerstop.ca>
>> wrote:
>> > dean wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have this issue as well but since 3.04 I have noticed that after the
>> >> login screen on mine it spreads out to the current resolution of my
>> >> desktop.
>> >
>> > I have no problem - but perhaps the issue is that David presumably
>> > doesn't _have_ a login screen (I'm assuming that since he doesn't want
>> > to log into the Ubuntu account, he isn't logging into the VBox Windows
>> > account, either).
>> 
>> I have the same issue[1] with 8.10 and XP inside the VM.  I also
>> auto-login to XP, so maybe you're on to something there.  I never
>> figured out what was going on, so I'm watching this thread closely ;)
>> 
> 
>   Odd,, I'm using VB (on openSuSE) and I get full screen usage right off
> the bat on my VM's (one of which is Ubuntu).  I wonder if this is a
> config item?

It would be a guest OS issue - it looks to me as if XP isn't properly 
resetting the screen if you don't go through a user login.
-- 
derek