Guest renders offscreen fix

[wsanders]

I moved a (CentOS) guest from one Windows PC to another Windows PC with a different display setup. When the guest comes up it renders offscreen, outside the boundaries of my display - I can sort of tell this is happening because when I open it, the open animation zooms off screen. I cansee it in the taskbar, but can only view the guest if I maximize it from the taskbar.

Is there a way to recover the initial display placement of the guest so I can view it?

Thanks,

-w

[Perryg]

From the hosts terminal/command window type VBoxManage showvminfo <VM Name> --details and post here. Replace <VM Name> with the actual name of the VM. Use " " if the name has a space in it.

Note if the host is Windows you need to be in the directory that has VBoxManage.exe for the command to work.

[wsanders]

Thanks for the reply; I can't find the VboxManage command on my host (Windows 7) but to fix this I unplugged my external display (I have a laptop) and the guest appeared on my main display. After I plugged the external display back in it stayed put and I can use it. This workaround won't work if you have only one display, but I think the root cause was moving from one machine to another with different external display configurations, so I'm cool.

w

[wsanders]

Aha there it is in C:\ProgramFiles\Oracle\VirtualBox

I guess Windows search doesn't look there.

I may sound like a Windows n00b but one of the main uses of Virtuabox is for those of us who are forced to use Windows at work and need a Linux host to get our work done.....