According to the VirtualBox user guide, it says:
This is what I put in the OS X terminal9.5 Custom VESA resolutions
Apart from the standard VESA resolutions, the VirtualBox VESA BIOS allows you to
add up to 16 custom video modes which will be reported to the guest operating system.
When using Windows guests with the VirtualBox Guest Additions, a custom graphics driver will be used instead of the fallback VESA solution so this information does not
apply.
Additional video modes can be configured for each VM using the extra data facility.
The extra data key is called CustomVideoMode<x> with x being a number from 1 to
16. Please note that modes will be read from 1 until either the following number is not
defined or 16 is reached. The following example adds a video mode that corresponds
to the native display resolution of many notebook computers:
VBoxManage setextradata "Windows XP" \
"CustomVideoMode1" "1400x1050x16"
The VESA mode IDs for custom video modes start at 0x160. In order to use the
above defined custom video mode, the following command line has be supplied to
Linux:
vga = 0x200 | 0x160
vga = 864
For guest operating systems with VirtualBox Guest Additions, a custom video mode
can be set using the video mode hint feature.
alam-150-193:~ srgregson$ VBoxManage setextradata "Fedora 9 Preview" "CustomVideoMode1" "1440x900x24"
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.6.0
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And as for the whole part of:
Problem is, the bash terminal says that there is no such command.In order to use the
above defined custom video mode, the following command line has be supplied to
Linux:
vga = 0x200 | 0x160
vga = 864
So WHERE do I enter the VGA command into my linux installation?
Xorg.conf? The bootloader configuration? Or am I supposed to enter it in my host OS X somewhere? It's very confusing.
Help! Can somebody please give me step-by-step instructions on how to enable a custom screen resolution in my linux/solaris guest machines?
EDIT:
I tried adding the vga lines to my xorg.conf, left me with a broken x-server, but I fixed my config file so x-server boots again. x11 doesn't recognize what "vga" is.
I also tried adding the vga line into grub, which also doesn't acknowledge the "vga" command.
So, if the whole vga command deal doesn't work in bash, xorg.conf, or my grub boot options -- where does it work?