VRDP resolution of 1920x1200

[sebster]

Hi,

Is there any way to get a VRDP resolution of 1920x1200? I have a dual monitor setup so I want to use XP with two monitors and thus am using the headless mode. In the Display Properties in XP I see that I have 2 monitors on the virtual graphics adapter, but I can only set the resolution to 1600x1200 or 1920x1440. I want to run fullscreen on both monitors at 1920x1200. Also, specifying the resolution via "rdesktop -g 1920x1200" localhost does not work, it warns that it's setting the resolution to whatever is used in the Display Properties settings.

Thanks in advance for any tips!

Regards,
Sebastiaan

[Sasquatch]

Check the manual to let the Guest know of certain resolutions. You should be able to set 1920 x 1200 after that. The VM must be powered down before using the command(s).

[sebster]

Hi,

I tried to follow your suggestion (with various color depths), while the VM was off:

$ VBoxManage setextradata Windows "CustomVideoMode1" "1920x1200x32"
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.4
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
$

But unfortunately the video mode does not seem to appear in the list of the VirtualBox graphics adapter. It seems to me this SHOULD work...

Regards,
Sebastiaan

[Martin]

How much VRAM do you have configured for this VM?

[sebster]

Hi,

I've configured 32MB of VRAM. It supports really large resolutions, with over 6000 width, but the 1920x1200 isn't listed (note that 1920x1440 *is* listed).

Regards,
Sebastiaan

[Martin]

Did you try a
VBoxManage controlvm setvideomodehint <xres> <yres> <bpp>
on the running VM?

[sebster]

Hi,

Thanks! That did change the resolution.

Unfortunately now when I run remote desktop on my seconds monitor (Ubuntu 9.04), and go into fullscreen mode, the second monitor display becomes all grey while the first monitor actually contains the remote desktop full screen. So unfortunately I still can't get 2 fullscreen XP VM screens.

Regards,
Sebastiaan

[mishkind]

Hi,
DId this ever get resolved?
I've tried changing my xorg.conf file to use twinView and xinerama, but so far no luck.

Seems like a pretty common task, two fullscreen monitors of an XP guest on an ubuntu OS. Has no one been able to solve this?

mishkin
p.s. yes Sasquatch, i've read the manual , but still can't get it working
p.p.s. yes Sasquatch, this might be an rdesktop issue and not necessarily a VB one, but I figured at least one of the users here must have tried this and has some tips.

[Sasquatch]

Hi,
DId this ever get resolved?
I've tried changing my xorg.conf file to use twinView and xinerama, but so far no luck.

Seems like a pretty common task, two fullscreen monitors of an XP guest on an ubuntu OS. Has no one been able to solve this?

mishkin
p.s. yes Sasquatch, i've read the manual , but still can't get it working
p.p.s. yes Sasquatch, this might be an rdesktop issue and not necessarily a VB one, but I figured at least one of the users here must have tried this and has some tips.

Hehe. Looks like I made a negative reputation here .

Please tell how you are connecting to the VM, what you have done and what errors you get.

[mishkind]

Sorry for the cross-posting, but I eventually found the answer to this problem and posted the steps I took here:

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... t=multiple

@sasquatch. I was using VBoxHealdess, and rdesktop. The problems I had were
1. My VM would just hang whenever I connected using rdekstop. Fixed by changing the background in windows guest.
2. Couldn't get both rdesktops to go full screen for both moitors. Fixed by tweaking window placement settings in ubuntu.