Lost widescreen resolution after Windows 10 update

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yuri.weinstein@gmail.com
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Lost widescreen resolution after Windows 10 update

Post by yuri.weinstein@gmail.com »

I run headless VB (Windows 10) on ubuntu 16.04.1.
And use Remmina to connect to it.
Today after Windows 10 anniversary update I lost widescreen ability and wondering if other people saw this and if there is any fix for it.

Thx
Perryg
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Re: Lost widescreen resolution after Windows 10 update

Post by Perryg »

Moved to Windows guests
socratis
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Re: Lost widescreen resolution after Windows 10 update

Post by socratis »

Wild guess: did you update the Guest Additions? Does it also happen in "normal" mode?
  1. Start the VM. Not from a saved or suspended state. Clean start. Log in.
  2. Shut down the VM. Not suspended, not paused. Shut down.
  3. Right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager. Select "Show Log..."
  4. Save it (just the first log), ZIP it and attach it in your response (see the "Upload attachment" at the bottom of the form).
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Re: Lost widescreen resolution after Windows 10 update

Post by BillG »

A Windows 10 guest will sometimes (for some unknown reason) decide not to display at the usual screen dimensions (mine did after the last Windows 10 upgrade). I have also seen this problem when you resize the screen and the desktop does not expand to fill the new window.

If a reboot doesn't fix it, go to the display settings in the Windows 10 guest and manually select the higher value setting.
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Re: Lost widescreen resolution after Windows 10 update

Post by GJE »

I have the same problem. Can not rescaling it in windows and not in vm.

add log file.
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