Fedora 26.1 Guest in Windows 7 host Video won't go high res

[decuser]

I have installed Fedora 26.1.5 with KDE Plasma 5 onto my Windows 7 environment. The highest resolution it will go to is 1024x768. I have installed the guest additions. How can I troubleshoot this?

[socratis]

In order to better understand the problem you need to submit some more information. Please read the following: Minimum information needed for assistance.

[decuser]

Here is some additional information as requested. I appreciate any helpful hints that might help me figure out how to convince VBox that the res can go higher

Host:
Windows 7 Enterprise SP1
16.0 GB Ram
Intel i5-6500@2.3 GHz
Intel HD Graphics 530
HP #222 1920x1080 (x2 identical monitors)

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VBoxManage --version
5.1.28r117968

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VBoxManage list extpacks
Extension Packs: 1
Pack no. 0:   Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
Version:      5.1.28
Revision:     117968
Edition:
Description:  USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 Host Controller, Host Webcam, VirtualBox RDP,
PXE ROM, Disk Encryption, NVMe.
VRDE Module:  VBoxVRDP
Usable:       true
Why unusable:

Guest:
Fedora 26.1.5 64 bit KDE Plasma 5

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ls /opt
VBoxGuestAdditions-5.1.26

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uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.12.11-300.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 7 18:32:12 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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VBoxManage showvminfo "Fedora 26.1.5" --details
Name:            Fedora 26.1.5
Groups:          /
Guest OS:        Fedora (64-bit)
UUID:            8f5513e4-dbc4-43f5-8557-ebfe8dc254b2
Config file:     C:\Users\wsenn1\VirtualBox VMs\Fedora 26.1.5\Fedora 26.1.5.vbox
Snapshot folder: C:\Users\wsenn1\VirtualBox VMs\Fedora 26.1.5\Snapshots
Log folder:      C:\Users\wsenn1\VirtualBox VMs\Fedora 26.1.5\Logs
Hardware UUID:   8f5513e4-dbc4-43f5-8557-ebfe8dc254b2
Memory size:     4096MB
Page Fusion:     off
VRAM size:       128MB
CPU exec cap:    100%
HPET:            off
Chipset:         piix3
Firmware:        BIOS
Number of CPUs:  2
PAE:             on
Long Mode:       on
Triple Fault Reset: off
APIC:            on
X2APIC:          on
CPUID Portability Level: 0
CPUID overrides: None
Boot menu mode:  message and menu
Boot Device (1): Floppy
Boot Device (2): DVD
Boot Device (3): HardDisk
Boot Device (4): Not Assigned
ACPI:            on
IOAPIC:          on
BIOS APIC mode:  APIC
Time offset:     0ms
RTC:             UTC
Hardw. virt.ext: on
Nested Paging:   on
Large Pages:     on
VT-x VPID:       on
VT-x unr. exec.: on
Paravirt. Provider: Default
Effective Paravirt. Provider: KVM
State:           running (since 2017-09-18T18:24:25.645000000)
Monitor count:   1
3D Acceleration: off
2D Video Acceleration: off
Teleporter Enabled: off
Teleporter Port: 0
Teleporter Address:
Teleporter Password:
Tracing Enabled: off
Allow Tracing to Access VM: off
Tracing Configuration:
Autostart Enabled: off
Autostart Delay: 0
Default Frontend:
Storage Controller Name (0):            IDE
Storage Controller Type (0):            PIIX4
Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (0):  2
Storage Controller Port Count (0):      2
Storage Controller Bootable (0):        on
Storage Controller Name (1):            SATA
Storage Controller Type (1):            IntelAhci
Storage Controller Instance Number (1): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (1):  30
Storage Controller Port Count (1):      1
Storage Controller Bootable (1):        on
IDE (0, 0): E:\Virtual Machines\Fedora-Drives\fedora-disk1.vdi (UUID: 88a12b71-07cf-4862-aa33-abf4b3d1ec9d)
IDE (1, 0): C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso (UUID: 7e52899c-aec4-4768-ae0a-d07bdb259d1f)
NIC 1:           MAC: 080027BB6078, Attachment: NAT, Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0, Promisc Policy: deny, Bandwidth group: none
NIC 1 Settings:  MTU: 0, Socket (send: 64, receive: 64), TCP Window (send:64, receive: 64)
NIC 1 Rule(0):   name = ssh, protocol = tcp, host ip = , host port = 2222, guest ip = , guest port = 22
NIC 2:           disabled
NIC 3:           disabled
NIC 4:           disabled
NIC 5:           disabled
NIC 6:           disabled
NIC 7:           disabled
NIC 8:           disabled
Pointing Device: USB Tablet
Keyboard Device: PS/2 Keyboard
UART 1:          disabled
UART 2:          disabled
UART 3:          disabled
UART 4:          disabled
LPT 1:           disabled
LPT 2:           disabled
Audio:           enabled (Driver: DSOUND, Controller: AC97, Codec: AD1980)
Clipboard Mode:  Bidirectional
Drag and drop Mode: Bidirectional
Session name:    GUI/Qt
Video mode:      1024x768x32 at 0,0 enabled
VRDE:            disabled
USB:             enabled
EHCI:            enabled
XHCI:            disabled

USB Device Filters:

<none>

Available remote USB devices:

<none>

Currently Attached USB Devices:

<none>

Bandwidth groups:  <none>

Shared folders:

Name: 'Shared', Host path: 'C:\Users\WSenn1\Shared' (machine mapping), writable

VRDE Connection:    not active
Clients so far:     0

Video capturing:    not active
Capture screens:    0
Capture file:       C:\Users\wsenn1\VirtualBox VMs\Fedora 26.1.5\Fedora 26.1.5.webm
Capture dimensions: 1024x768
Capture rate:       512 kbps
Capture FPS:        25

Guest:

Configured memory balloon size:      0 MB
OS type:                             Linux26_64
Additions run level:                 2
Additions version:                   5.1.26 r117224


Guest Facilities:

Facility "VirtualBox Base Driver": active/running (last update: 2017/09/14 17:11:13 UTC)
Facility "VirtualBox System Service": active/running (last update: 2017/09/14 17:11:18 UTC)
Facility "Seamless Mode": active/running (last update: 2017/09/18 18:24:25 UTC)
Facility "Graphics Mode": not active (last update: 2017/09/18 18:24:25 UTC)

[socratis]

VBoxManage --version
5.1.28r117968

ls /opt
VBoxGuestAdditions-5.1.26

Please update your Guest Additions. See the manual (Ch. 4) for more details.

[decuser]

Still have the issue, but the guest additions are up to date again...

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ls /opt
VBoxGuestAdditions-5.1.28

[JiF_Brodeur]

Hi, What version of the Fedora Linux Kernel are you running? From experience there seems to be an issue with 4.12 version of Kernel with X11 1.19, if you look into your /var/log for the install guest addition log, you might see that it fails.
Thanks
Jean-Frs

[decuser]

To close the books on this, I gave up, installed Linux Mint 18.2, Virtual Box, and Windows in a VM. No problems with the new setup.