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#1 2011-09-21 17:43:36
- RomaHagen
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[UPSTREAM BUG] VirtualBox changes console resolution
Hi guys,
hope you will help me with the following problem. I've just installed Arch as a guest in VirtualBox including all guest additions. Everything works perfectly. Including clipboard and window resize. I can have an arbitrary resolution in console also. But as long as I start X server it chages to something very small, probably 640x480!!! This resolution remains after I logout to console from my DE. So how can I chage the resolution as it previously was?
Thank you.
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#2 2011-09-21 17:51:50
- karol
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Re: [UPSTREAM BUG] VirtualBox changes console resolution
You can use e.g. xrandr e.g. 'xrandr --fb 1920x1080' of fbset in the console.
What graphics card and driver are you using?
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#3 2011-09-22 02:39:59
- hellomynameisphil
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Re: [UPSTREAM BUG] VirtualBox changes console resolution
Hi all,
I am running Arch as a VirtualBox guest on my MacBook. At boot time, the console resolution is great; it is set to 773 as per GRUB. Once X starts, the console resolution changes to a very low value. I can see it by changing to a virtual console once X has started or by killing X. Any thoughts on how I could fix this?
Edit: Thanks mod for moving my post to this thread.
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#4 2011-09-22 07:26:24
- RomaHagen
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Re: [UPSTREAM BUG] VirtualBox changes console resolution
Thank you for the answer!
Unfortunately after I issued xrandr commmand nothing happend. Well my host video card is NVidia and it's blob driver. But I doubt the resolution in guest machine depends on it. Moreover, as I already said: resolution in console is fine till I run X server. After that it changes.
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#5 2011-09-22 09:03:15
- RomaHagen
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Re: [UPSTREAM BUG] VirtualBox changes console resolution
This is upstream problem http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9490
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#6 2011-09-22 10:07:38
- George
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Re: [UPSTREAM BUG] VirtualBox changes console resolution
As a work around, if you can do without guest additions then uninstal them - for me this results in the console staying the correct resolution.
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#7 2011-09-22 10:12:24
- George
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Re: [UPSTREAM BUG] VirtualBox changes console resolution
A workaround that you can try is to uninstall the virtualbox guest additions and simply use the vesa driver for X, for me this keeps the console at the correct resolution.
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#8 2011-09-22 13:50:14
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Re: [UPSTREAM BUG] VirtualBox changes console resolution
Merged threads
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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#9 2011-09-22 18:41:44
- hellomynameisphil
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Re: [UPSTREAM BUG] VirtualBox changes console resolution
A workaround that you can try is to uninstall the virtualbox guest additions and simply use the vesa driver for X, for me this keeps the console at the correct resolution.
Thanks, but if I do this I can't figure out how to use X at the full available resolution of 1280x800 in the Arch guest. If I'm forced to choose between the correct resolution for X and the correct resolution for the console, I will choose X and wait for the upstream bug to be fixed. Thanks anyway. :-)
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#10 2011-09-22 21:57:53
- George
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Re: [UPSTREAM BUG] VirtualBox changes console resolution
George wrote:A workaround that you can try is to uninstall the virtualbox guest additions and simply use the vesa driver for X, for me this keeps the console at the correct resolution.
Thanks, but if I do this I can't figure out how to use X at the full available resolution of 1280x800 in the Arch guest. If I'm forced to choose between the correct resolution for X and the correct resolution for the console, I will choose X and wait for the upstream bug to be fixed. Thanks anyway. :-)
Ahh yes, I should've mentioned that the workaround is limited to the resolution you set in grub.
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