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Hi!

I've got a problem with screen scaling in my guest, which is Archlinux. Guest additions are installed and generally work - there is correctly working mouse as well as clipboard. The only problem is no scaling of the screen. Even the option available in vbox Machine menu: "Enable auto scaling of Guest" is grayed and inactive (as well as Integrated mode).

My configuration is:

Host:
Ubuntu 10.04 (up to date)
Virtualbox 3.2.8 (also tested with manually comiplled 3.2.10 with no result)

Guest:
Archlinux (up to date)
kernel: 2.6.35-ARCH
xorg: X Version 11 (xorg-server 1.9.0)
additions: virtualbox-ose-additions and virtualbox-ose-additions-modules 3.2.10-2 (also checked 3.2.10-1 with no result)

I've no idea what can be wrong here. What should I check?

xorg-server 1.9.0

Support for xorg 1.9 was added in version 3.2.10. An upgrade should fix this for you. The main part of the fix is the guest additions.

Perryg wrote:

xorg-server 1.9.0

Support for xorg 1.9 was added in version 3.2.10. An upgrade should fix this for you. The main part of the fix is the guest additions.

As I said. I was using additions from 3.2.10. I had xorg 1.9 for a while and everything was ok. Some days ago I upgraded my system and then the problem appeared. But, after I wrote my post here I was experimenting with packages (trying older ones) with no success. Then I booted my laptop at home, and.. surprise, vbox guest works as expected. I now use latest packages and it is ok.
To summarize - the problem is solved now, but don't ask me how i solved it - I don't know that.