Fedora 12 Guest

[aseitz]

Hey I have a Windows 7 64-Bit Host and I am running Fedora 12 as a guest VM - SunBox OSE 3.0.12. I am unable to get the tools to properly configure the x session, I noticed that there is no xorg.conf file in /etc/x11/. Other than the X stuff, the rest seems to work fine, the installation generates no errors as far as I can tell.

Anyone already got this working?

[aseitz]

Here are the steps I have tried so far to get this (mostly) working

Create an xorg.conf File (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_xorg.conf)
Root> yum install system-config-display
Root> system-config-display

Save config
Reboot

Install Guest Tools
Reboot

I had to re-run the system-config-display tool again at this point to get the x session working, because it failed to initialize X. I also edited the xorg.conf file and added some more display resolutions. So at this point the mouse integration / clipboard is working great -- video is ok but does not auto-resize when the window size is changed.

Anyone have a better solution?

[Sasquatch]

Guys, you're in the Linux Guests forum. How can you not see my howto that is made for this? You don't have to install system-config-display. The install script should generate an xorg.conf on it's own. It does that on Ubuntu, should do the same on other systems. The only part that's in it, is to list the driver specifically. That's all. Modern distro's don't use xorg.conf anymore and it's only needed if you use a proprietary driver, but that usually comes with a config tool of it's own.

[aseitz]

Guys, you're in the Linux Guests forum. How can you not see my howto that is made for this? You don't have to install system-config-display. The install script should generate an xorg.conf on it's own. It does that on Ubuntu, should do the same on other systems. The only part that's in it, is to list the driver specifically. That's all. Modern distro's don't use xorg.conf anymore and it's only needed if you use a proprietary driver, but that usually comes with a config tool of it's own.

[edit] I see the walkthrough ... And my problem was there was no xorg.conf after I installed the guest tools.

[aseitz]

Guys, you're in the Linux Guests forum. How can you not see my howto that is made for this? You don't have to install system-config-display. The install script should generate an xorg.conf on it's own. It does that on Ubuntu, should do the same on other systems. The only part that's in it, is to list the driver specifically. That's all. Modern distro's don't use xorg.conf anymore and it's only needed if you use a proprietary driver, but that usually comes with a config tool of it's own.

Thank You - Your walk through worked like a charm. I am used your xorg.conf completly - Thanks Again

[tanguy]

I still have some problems with Xorg. In some dimension of the window the X server start or don't start. See the Xorg.0.log attached in case the X server does not start. The problem is the same with or without xorg.conf.

[Sasquatch]

tanguy, you have to modify your xorg.conf file. The following is causing major issues:

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   Section "Device"
      Identifier   "Builtin Default vboxvideo Device 0"
      Driver   "vboxvideo"
   EndSection
   Section "Screen"
      Identifier   "Builtin Default vboxvideo Screen 0"
      Device   "Builtin Default vboxvideo Device 0"
   EndSection
   Section "Device"
      Identifier   "Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
      Driver   "vesa"
   EndSection
   Section "Screen"
      Identifier   "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0"
      Device   "Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
   EndSection
   Section "Device"
      Identifier   "Builtin Default fbdev Device 0"
      Driver   "fbdev"
   EndSection
   Section "Screen"
      Identifier   "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0"
      Device   "Builtin Default fbdev Device 0"
   EndSection
   Section "ServerLayout"
      Identifier   "Builtin Default Layout"
      Screen   "Builtin Default vboxvideo Screen 0"
      Screen   "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0"
      Screen   "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0"
   EndSection

Having 3 video devices, with 3 different drivers will fail horribly. Especially if fbdev isn't working.

[tanguy]

I tried but no luck. See attached file and here is the xorg.conf:
#Example xorg.conf from Ubuntu

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "vboxvideo"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "vboxmouse"
Driver "vboxmouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "vboxmouse"
EndSection

[tanguy]

If i run fedora 12 in mode 3 CLI, and i startx in full screen mode the X server works fine if i do the same in windowed mode the X server fail with the same error.

[Gauge]

A base install from the Live CD and I didn't have an xorg.conf file either. Although I'd tried creating my own xorg.conf file I ended up yum installing system-config-display anyway.

However, in my case although the system-config-display window showed the video card as an Innotek Virtualbox adapter or something, the newly created xorg.conf file clearly said it was using the standard VESA driver.

I went back to display config, picked the right LCD monitor for my laptop and then chose the "vboxvideo" adapter specifically from the configuration list - which then showed up as "Unknown Video Card" in the summary. Logged out and back in again and the Guest Additions are now running perfectly. Mouse, seamless, resizing... the lot. It might be a glitch with the system-config-display utility but on first run it wasn't using the adapter it said it was. I've attached my xorg.conf.

Also, it's worth noting that certain video parts of the Guest Additions don't run until you've logged on, so seamless / resizing doesn't work at the log-in screen.

[tanguy]

Nothing to do. I can't achieve to run it properly most the time. It's very annoying because before this i used to use fedora 11 without any problem!

[Techno.Scavenger]

This link (viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15679) fixed my Fedora Core 12. Would be nice to help others on this one. Please post your issues here so that people can take a look.

Regards,
Technos

[Techno.Scavenger]

Ok. The above comment does not work 100% of the time.

[Techno.Scavenger]

Observed that vboxvideo is not automatically detected by Fedora 12. Anyone knows how to fix this?

[Techno.Scavenger]

Seems like we have a patch in VirtualBox-OSE (http://cvs.rpmfusion.org/viewvc/rpms/Vi ... ee&view=co). Could this be a regression in Virtual Box 3.0.12?