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Ubuntu 14.04 guest auto-resize display not working

Posted: 1. Jul 2014, 17:42
by smaring
I'm running VirtualBox 4.3.10 r93012 on Windows 7 x64 with an Ubuntu 14.04 x64 guest VM.

I don't have any problem building the guest additions and they appear to be loaded properly, but the auto-resize display does not work. The option in the drop-down is grayed out.

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root@steve-vm:~# apt-cache policy virtualbox
virtualbox:
  Installed: 4.3.10-dfsg-1
  Candidate: 4.3.10-dfsg-1
  Version table:
 *** 4.3.10-dfsg-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
root@steve-vm:~# lsmod | grep vbox
vboxsf                 43786  0 
vboxpci                23194  0 
vboxnetadp             25670  0 
vboxnetflt             27613  0 
vboxdrv               339502  3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci
vboxvideo              12658  0 
vboxguest             248441  6 vboxsf
drm                   303102  1 vboxvideo
-Steve Maring
Orlando, FL

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 guest auto-resize display not working

Posted: 1. Jul 2014, 19:20
by Perryg
Install VirtualBox version 4.3.12 from VirtualBox.org then install the following guest additions.

https://www.virtualbox.org/download/tes ... -94438.iso

Note: Availability will not last long.

Note 2: if you proceed to use the Ubuntu fork we can not support you here.