X-Server screen resize does not work in guest Debian squeeze

[Procyon]

Heyho everybody,

I've got a problem with automatic screen resizing in a clean Debian squeeze guest OS. The screen size does not change when resizing the guest OS window and I'm not able to change the screen size within the guest OS. Using

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vboxmanage controlvm "Debian squeeze" setvideomodehint 1024 800 24 1

does not work because I did not find information on what the [display] option is.

I am running Virtualbox 4.0.2 on Windows 7.

I've been looking a bit around in this forum and in google but I did not find a hint on how to resolve this issue. Most solutions use an xorg.conf file but in Howto it is mentioned that xorg.conf is going to be abandoned ... Therefor I am looking for a way to get automatic screen resizing without an xorg.conf.

Installing the guest additions works fine, but there are some interesting lines in Xorg.0.log:

http://pastebin.com/Z8pmimrK

Guest additions are started:

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ps -AFw | grep -i vbox
root       871     1  0  3694   800   0 11:37 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/VBoxService
procyon   1118     1  0 11114  1732   0 11:37 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/VBoxClient --display
procyon   1122     1  0 10075  1236   0 11:37 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/VBoxClient --seamless
procyon   1205     1  0  9913   508   0 11:37 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/VBoxClient --checkhostversion
procyon   1208     1  0 11114  1732   0 11:37 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/VBoxClient --display
procyon   1213     1  0 10075  1248   0 11:37 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/VBoxClient --seamless
procyon   1253  1046  0  2403   908   0 11:38 tty2     00:00:00 grep -i vbox

By the way: Mouse integration works flawlessly!

Bye, Procyon