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Just swapped my monitors around a bit and moved my 1900x1200 widescreen LCD to the VirtualBox machine and noticed that my Win2003 guests can only go up to 1400x1050, which is quite odd in fullscreen or seemless mode.

Upping the screen memory from 8 to 32Mb doesn't help.

Obviously I have guest additions installed.

I'm using 3.0.0b1 (and no, I won't try beta2 as it breaks way too much other stuff).

I've not tried a Linux/Solaris guest yet.

Any ideas, or is this a hardcoded limitation?

sej7278 wrote:Just swapped my monitors around a bit and moved my 1900x1200 widescreen LCD to the VirtualBox machine and noticed that my Win2003 guests can only go up to 1400x1050, which is quite odd in fullscreen or seemless mode.

Upping the screen memory from 8 to 32Mb doesn't help.

Obviously I have guest additions installed.

I'm using 3.0.0b1 (and no, I won't try beta2 as it breaks way too much other stuff).

I've not tried a Linux/Solaris guest yet.

Any ideas, or is this a hardcoded limitation?

Hmmm, I've had 1680x1050 working in all versions of VBox so far (including 3.0b1 & 3.0b2) with 32MB video RAM setup. Vista x64 host. Guests include various Linux, OpenSolaris, Solaris, Win2k8, Win7. Not sure if I ever tried a Win2k3.

Also surprised about your beta 2 comment. I found beta 1 completely unusable. Beta 2 still has some bugs, but I can at least boot and use my VMs.

Just tried an Ubuntu guest and its doing 1920x1104 (16:9) just fine in 12Mb VRAM and the 2.2.4 GA's, so it must be a Windows-ism I guess - probably need to reinstall some driver and reboot a couple of times.

As far as 3beta2 goes - if you're managing to boot your Solaris guests, I expect you haven't tried SMP support yet

sej7278 wrote:As far as 3beta2 goes - if you're managing to boot your Solaris guests, I expect you haven't tried SMP support yet

Oh yeah, I've tried it in 3b1 and 3b2. Doesn't work for any of my VMs in either.