Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (949 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 03:12:46PM +0200, Michal Seben wrote:
> Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
> > Michal Seben pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> >   
> > > Jon Cosby wrote:
> > >     
> > > > I can't resize the display of a Gnome guest in VirtualBox. I'm stuck
> > > > with a small 800x600 (or 640x480) window. Other than changing the host
> > > > settings, does someone know of a way to adjust this?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Jon
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   
> > > >       
> > > try as root in guest :  sax2 -m 0=vboxvideo
> > > are you using live cd ? if yes which build ?
> > >     
> >
> > You also need to install the "guest additions" for the higher res
> > screens AFAIK.
> >
> >   
> if you are using openSUSE live CD as guest, you don't need install
> "guest additions", xorg modules for high res (and other features) are in
> xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox-ose and this package is already on live CD by
> default,
> you only need to have proper xorg.conf, which you could handle by "sax2
> -m 0=vboxvideo"

You would not need a "proper" xorg.conf, if the vboxvideo would detect the
current resolution. This is what Bug #525243 is about. Known since 3 weeks
now.

Best regards,
Stefan

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