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I'm running VirtualBox 2.1.4 on Mac OS X 10.5.6 on a new Unibody MacBook Pro. I've installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 on a 64 bit OpenSolaris VM. The OpenSolaris installation is a fresh one, with no updates.

For some reason, installing Guest Additions does not allow me to automatically resize my display. I tried installing Guest Additions several times using both su and pkexec. Each time, it told me the additions were installed successfully. After logging out and logging in several times, and rebooting, I'm still not able to get the display to auto-resize. In the GNOME screen resolution dialogue, my screen resolution is listed at a maximum of 1024X768.

I am able to move my mouse seemlessly between the VM and OS X, so it seems like the Guest Additions work to a certain extent, but the dynamic screen resizing doesn't work.

I'm going to try creating a 32-bit OpenSolaris VM to see if that works.

Has anybody encountered this problem? Please let me know if you need any more information.

This does not work on the 32-bit VM either. I even tried switching the VM to "Solaris" instead of "OpenSolaris". No dice.

However, I got this to work on my revision A Intel Core Duo iMac running VirtualBox 2.0.6.

Any workarounds for the above issue?

Here is the solution:

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... 73b82f1981

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Remove the resolution lines in your xorg.conf. If the GA detect those entries, it will disable dynamic resizing.
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Here is an example of a line that must be removed in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

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Modes "1024X768"
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"Me Too"

Removed the "Modes" lines, actually the entire Driver sub-section. All is now working Auto-Resize, Seamless Mode, etc.

Bad OpenSolaris, BAD!
Bad VBox, BAD!
Stupid Sun, STUPID!



James

the fix works on opensolaris (can't say i had the problem) but it doesn't fix REAL solaris.