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Using Vbox 2.2.2 on Windows Vista Business 64 SP1 - guest is Windows XP SP3

When using remote desktop to the any guest OS using VBox built in VRDP the resolution is only 800/600 and cannot be changed up. I tried settin RDP connection to 1024/768 (that I need) or full screen - same thing. The guest OS apears in little square with big black space around it. This started since I installed 2.2.2, I didn't have this problem in 2.2.0. I have many Windows XP guests, one Vista, latest guest additions installed, all show same way.

The only way to have Vbox VRDP window full screen is to set the partucular guest OS window to Full Screen in the host OS (Ctrl + F) and then to connect via VRDP

Please, help me this as it is very problematic for my workflow! I have users that connect to those guest OSes, but they don't have access to host OS to be able to switch guest OS windows to full screen.

I suggest that you reinstall 2.2.2 and this time as administrator and then re-install the GA. By your definition something did not install correctly.

Perryg wrote:I suggest that you reinstall 2.2.2 and this time as administrator and then re-install the GA. By your definition something did not install correctly.

I just installed it. And I did it is an administrator. UAC is turned off. Please, confirm that you do not have this problem?

You can not autoresize an RDP window. Well you can but it will simple scroll to see the desktop if it is set in full screen. You can set the RDP to show less than full screen in the display section of the RDP. Click start a new session and then options. Click display and adjust it there.

Perryg wrote:You can not autoresize an RDP window. Well you can but it will simple scroll to see the desktop if it is set in full screen. You can set the RDP to show less than full screen in the display section of the RDP. Click start a new session and then options. Click display and adjust it there.

Thank you, but I know that, this is not my problem, please read my post carefully.

Is somebody able to help me, or I need to post a bug maybe?

Do u installed virtualbox guest additions in guest?
If do this,uninstall that.
now try again to view full screen or set 1024*768 resolution.

minu273@yahoo.com wrote:Do u installed virtualbox guest additions in guest?
If do this,uninstall that.
now try again to view full screen or set 1024*768 resolution.

Tried it. Didn't work. Now what?

Disable seamless via the VM menu, then set resolution inside Guest.

vbox4me2 wrote:Disable seamless via the VM menu, then set resolution inside Guest.

Actually, when I unininstalled the guest additions, I was able to set 1024/768 resolution within the guest OS and use it with remote desktop. But not having guest additions is not very good. My mouse is very slow and going through VRDP in addition to slow the cursor is double!

When guest additions are installed the video driver won't allow me to set resolution higher then 800 / 600! Maybe that is the problem.

Delete the video driver in device manager, reboot the VM but don't let it install anything for the video or the monitor, then re-install the GA. Once you can seamlessly resize the VM you can disable seamless and set the Guest to a fixed value.

vbox4me2 wrote:Delete the video driver in device manager, reboot the VM but don't let it install anything for the video or the monitor, then re-install the GA. Once you can seamlessly resize the VM you can disable seamless and set the Guest to a fixed value.

1. I don't use seamless mode, seamless mode is something competely different.
2. If I unisntall the video driver from the device manager, on reboot it automatically installs it again without asking me if I want to or not.

I looked at the Guest OS Virtual box log.
It has the following line:

125:01:05.524 VMMDev::SetVideoModeHint: got a video mode hint (1024x768x0) at 0

This is the resolution set in my RDP client. But VRDP server obviously chooses not to follow the hint. Not entry about that in the log. I guess the devs broke something in 2.2.2

Posted a bug - http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4050