OpenSuse 11.1 (guest), GuestAdditions and screen resize

[random_guy]

I'm hoping someone out there can help, as I've tried a lot of things and nothing seems to work, maybe it's a known issue with OpenSuse

Installation details:
Guest OS: OpenSuse 11.1
VirtualBox Version: 2.2.4 r47978

Guest Additions compiles and installs fine, however, I can't get a better resolution than 800x600 and can't resize the window/screen.
Per some of the postings on this forum, I've checked xorg.conf and made sure there aren't any special modes or preference settings.
The video driver in xorg.conf is vboxvideo.

I know (and have tried) to get a bigger screen by manipulating xorg.conf and that works, but I want to use Guest Additions if possible to do this.

Any tips, comments or advice would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

-- RG

[Perryg]

Be sure that these have been installed in OpenSUSE11.1 and then install the GA again.

make
gcc
gcc-c++
kernel-source
kernel-syms

[random_guy]

Perryg:

Thanks for your response. I wouldn't be able to compile Guest Additions, if any of the the items you mentioned were missing.
While installing GA I kept a close eye for compile warnings or errors but saw none, so it must be something else.

-- RG

[Perryg]

Have you checked to see that the auto resizing function is turned on?
Click on the Machine tab at the top of the window and see. It turns blue when it is on. Then all you need to do is drag the corner of the screen to what ever size you want.

[random_guy]

I managed to get it going. I updated OpenSuse 11.1 (kernel 2.6.27.23-0.1) - not sure if this had anything to do with it. Reinstalled Guest Additions then went to the Menu (Machine --> AutoResize Guest Display) and voila ... the display gets resized. I now have usable desktop.

-- RG

[dremor]

I have the same problem with a clean install of OpensSUSE 11.1. (host is Vista64). The system is up to date. and the guest additions are installed and running.
ps ax | grep -i vboxclient results in the following:
2405 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/VBoxClient --clipboard
2419 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/VBoxClient --seamless

So autoresize seems to be missing. If I start VBoxClient --autoresize by hand it exits immediately (and does not keep running in the background).

[random_guy]

dremor:

Try it without the "seamless" option. I have not had any success with that. My entire window disappears when I try menu ( Machine-->Seamless mode) and it can only be restored with ctrl+L. OTH, Auto Resize Guest works great.

-- RG

[dremor]

Thanks, but I solved it in the meantime. You have to make absolutley sure that there is no screen mode configured in xorg.conf. SaX (SUSEs X configuration tool) seems to do that. So what you have to do is remove any "PreferredMode" option from the "Monitor" section. I also removed all "Display" subsections from the "Screen" section.

After a restart all seems to work fine now. Autoresize works as well as fullscreen mode.