I have a strange problem in setting the display of a Solaris guest
here the environment:
laptop with 13.1" display
resolution 1366X768
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
virtual box: 4.1.2 r 73507
GUI/MaxGuestResolution = any
3d video acceleration: on
virtual memory 1GB
video memory 64 MB
guest os: Solaris 10 09 64 bit
guest addition installed
xorg.conf: screen section resolution: 1280x1024, 1366x768 and some other value
when runnign the guest OS reports 1366x768 96 DPI as per host settings
the problem is:
The application have to display a content (text + images) higher than 768 points.
the windows within the guest can't be higher than 768 points .
the guest OS does not displays the scroll bars within the windows and I'm not able to set up the virtual box display to a resolution higher than the physical screen dimension (let's imagine that the last rows of button: "save", "discard" and so on are not visible and I'm not able to scroll to reach them)
may you help me in making VBox able to display a virtual display bigger than the physical one?
thank you
Roberto
Window content can't fit into window physical size
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Perryg
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Re: Window content can't fit into window physical size
See Chapter 9.7.2 Configuring the maximum resolution of guests when using the graphical frontend in your VirtualBox users guide
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gruntgulp
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Re: Window content can't fit into window physical size
perryg,
the GUI/MaxGuestResolution is already set to "any"
the xorg.conf of the guest contains both the 1280x1024 and 1366x768 settings
with a 1280x1024 monitor connected to the laptop everything works fine.
as I need to run the virtual machine on the primary laptop monitor, I need to display a 1280x1024 virtual machine screen within a 1366x768 physical monitor. Of course scrolling up and down the "exceeding" veritcal points in not a problem.
may you please help in configuring Virtual Box to behave this way?
thank you,
Roberto
the GUI/MaxGuestResolution is already set to "any"
the xorg.conf of the guest contains both the 1280x1024 and 1366x768 settings
with a 1280x1024 monitor connected to the laptop everything works fine.
as I need to run the virtual machine on the primary laptop monitor, I need to display a 1280x1024 virtual machine screen within a 1366x768 physical monitor. Of course scrolling up and down the "exceeding" veritcal points in not a problem.
may you please help in configuring Virtual Box to behave this way?
thank you,
Roberto
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gruntgulp
- Posts: 11
- Joined: 6. Jan 2011, 14:34
- Primary OS: MS Windows 7
- VBox Version: PUEL
- Guest OSses: XP, Fedora, Solaris
- Location: Rome, Italy
Re: Window content can't fit into window physical size
what do you think about using
vboxmanage controlvm [name] setvideomodehint 1366 1024 24
displaying the virtualmachine in the "scale mode"
it looks it's working, do you see any side effect (except that everything is small on the virtual screen)?
thank you
Roberto
vboxmanage controlvm [name] setvideomodehint 1366 1024 24
displaying the virtualmachine in the "scale mode"
it looks it's working, do you see any side effect (except that everything is small on the virtual screen)?
thank you
Roberto
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Perryg
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- Guest OSses: *NIX
Re: Window content can't fit into window physical size
What ever works for you. Just remember that you are in scaled mode as some VirtualBox features will not be available while in scaled mode. Learn the shortcut key (toggle).