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Posted: 16. Nov 2008, 12:19
by kraftcorp
d4nte wrote:For anybody who comes across this via a search, I solved this issue by adding more video memory (i.e. poweroff, virtualbox GUI -> settings -> general -> video memory). This, after installing Guest Additions of course.
P.S. It was on Debian etch (2.6.18), although I don't believe that makes a difference
Hopefully someone else will find it useful
This worked for me! CentOS 5.2 as guest on Vista Business Host. The memory was set to 8MB, and when I ramped it up to 128MB and did the edit in xorg.conf, everything started to work!
I have also installed the Guest Additions.
/Kraftcorp
Posted: 16. Nov 2008, 16:44
by Sasquatch
kraftcorp wrote:d4nte wrote:For anybody who comes across this via a search, I solved this issue by adding more video memory (i.e. poweroff, virtualbox GUI -> settings -> general -> video memory). This, after installing Guest Additions of course.
P.S. It was on Debian etch (2.6.18), although I don't believe that makes a difference
Hopefully someone else will find it useful
This worked for me! CentOS 5.2 as guest on Vista Business Host. The memory was set to 8MB, and when I ramped it up to 128MB and did the edit in xorg.conf, everything started to work!
I have also installed the Guest Additions.
/Kraftcorp
Why max it? You don't need 128 MB of VRAM. 8 MB should have been enough, else 12 or 16 MB is more than enough. Any more than that just to get 1600x1200 or smaller is overkill
Re: Maximum screen size 1024 * 768
Posted: 28. Jul 2009, 01:52
by rockclimber
Your advise was on the mark. After running the VirtualBox Guest additions from the linux command line and restarting, I was able to resize my Ubuntu guest session screen to nearly the full extent of my laptop's screen.
Thanks!