[Solved] screen resolution - VB 5.2 on Sierra MBA

[metropical]

the extension pack is installed and shows up under prefs/extensions.
I have display set under prefs to Hint 1920x1280 and have tried a few others.
But I can only get scaled or full screen.
I had previous had it so that I could resize the VB window and the resolution would follow.
But I dunno what I've missed.

[socratis]

We need to see a complete VBox.log, from a complete VM run, where the problem occurs:

• Start the VM from cold-boot (not from a paused or saved state) / Observe problem / Shutdown the VM (force close it if you have to).
• With the VM completely shut down (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log".
• Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response. See the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form.

[metropical]

here's the log.
Thanks for looking in.

[mpack]

I see no evidence that the Guest Additions have been installed. There's no way dynamic display resizing can work without them. See section 4.2 of the user manual.

[metropical]

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That's what I thought, but I get this when I try to install again.

[metropical]

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and this. wth?

[metropical]

ok. figured it out re-reading chap 4.2.
Don't remember going thru that method last time I installed VB (5.2.20 then. 5.2.32 now).
I seem to remember it auto loaded with Windows once I installed it from VB as compared to the VM of Windows.
But .....

Thanks,

[mpack]

Extension pack .not.equal. Guest Additions.

The former is a host plugin adding extra functionality to the host app, such as USB2/USB3 virtual hardware.

The latter is a driver bundle that you install in each guest, to allow the guest OS to access VirtualBox, getting access to graphics acceleration, shared folders, shared clipboard etc.