deleted Arch VM, created a new one=stuck with resolution (SOLVED)

Moltke · 2016-08-21 21:44:04

Hi everyone! how are you doing? I hope you're all having a nice life.
In my last post I was dealing with my arch VM consuming too much hdd space for no reason, at least not one that I was aware of, I sort of solved it by cloning and compacting the vdi image, but it kept growing so I decided to deleted it and create a new one. however I'm stuck with screen resolution. I tried the wiki way editing /etc/default/grub, and using VBoxmanage.exe as well as the solution in this post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=73403 which is about grub too but I must edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, when I run sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst the output is a blank page for me to create the new file, so it doesn't exist.
Is this a bad thing? very bad? In short, none of the above worked. Also, when editing /etc/default/grub where GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet desire_resolution"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" " is this " " in the second line supposed to be empty? Or should I edit that too? The first time, with the first VM I mean, I solved this problem by editing the monitor.conf file, but now when looking in /etc/X11 I found that there aren't any keyboard.conf or monitor.conf files. I created the monitor.conf file but when restarted the VM I got no desktop, had to press ctrl+alt+f2 and delete the file then I could log into the desktop. I hope you can help me, otherwise I would have to delete the VM again . Thanks in advance for your answers.

Last edited by Moltke (2016-08-23 03:32:25)

ewaller · 2016-08-21 22:58:14

I tried three times to read that and have no clue what you are trying to do. Don't pad with B.S. <1>. What is the host OS? What is the guest OS? what does disk space and boot configuration files have to do with resolution?

<1> Bloated Syntax

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Moltke · 2016-08-21 23:14:52

ewaller wrote:

I tried three times to read that and have no clue what you are trying to do. Don't pad with B.S. <1>. What is the host OS? What is the guest OS? what does disk space and boot configuration files have to do with resolution?
<1> Bloated Syntax

1 Host OS: windows 7 x64
2 Guest OS Arch Linux
3 I can't set other resolution than 800x600 in the VM.
4 Sorry my bad writing, was trying to put all of the info I have.
5 I found this post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=73403 about this problem and tried the solutions given there, which is about editing /boot/grub/menu.lst, but when I run sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst the output is a blank page for me to create the new file, so it doesn't exist. Is this bad?
6 I also tried the wiki solution, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … nux_guests which is about editing /etc/default/grub and set the desire resolution there, or use VBoxManage.exe, didn't work.
7 What I'm trying to do is to set the sceen resolution to 1280x960, but so far I haven't had luck doing it.

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer. Hope this time it's clearer my post. Sorry again for the trouble.

ewaller · 2016-08-21 23:24:39

Ah, much better. Thanks
As this is a Windows host, I assume you are running this is in a window. If you maximize the window, what happens? Is there blank space around the Arch desktop?
Are you still in a console, or have you started running X yet? Do you have the VirtualBox guest tools and modules installed?

Moltke · 2016-08-21 23:59:43

ewaller wrote:

Ah, much better. Thanks
As this is a Windows host, I assume you are running this is in a window. If you maximize the window, what happens? Is there blank space around the Arch desktop?
Are you still in a console, or have you started running X yet? Do you have the VirtualBox guest tools and modules installed?

Yes, if I maximize the window there is blank space around. Also, if I press host key+c I get a bigger screen and most of it is black, 3/4, and the rest shows a piece of the desktop. I can log in to a desktop but res is 800x600. Yes, I have Vbox guest utils/tools and modules installed.
When I created my first Arch VM I could set the resolution by editing the monitor.conf in etc/x11, but this time I didn't find any monitor.conf nor keyboard.conf there. is that ok? Almost forgot, I read the wiki page again and realized I missed one step/solution, which is editing the grub file like this: "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash vga=792" for a 1024x768 resolution, now when I boot the VM it starts with that resolution, I type the password but then when entering the desktop it goes back to 800x600.

Thanks again for taking time helping me solve this.

ewaller · 2016-08-22 00:15:10

On the host VM window, is the "View->Auto-resize gust display" check box enabled?
On the VM, does the kernel revision yielded by uname -a match that by pacman -Qi linux ?

Moltke · 2016-08-22 00:48:28

ewaller wrote:

On the host VM window, is the "View->Auto-resize gust display" check box enabled?
On the VM, does the kernel revision yielded by uname -a match that by pacman -Qi linux ?

Yes, auto-resize is enabled, now xD but it doesn't work. I mean, at first it worked and I was like "oh man that was it? but then it came back to 800x600

Yes, the Kernel revision they both match. 4.7.1-1- ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 17 2016 x86_64 gnu/linux.
By the way, I forgot to mention, and I don't know whether it is relevant or not but the desktop I installed is deepin desktop.

Edit: I forgot to mention this too: In the deepin desktop settings I can see the available video modes with the 800x600 hightlighted, and can't change it. Also, the screen should be seen as VBOX:1 but is not, is shown as VGA -1. Hope this helps. And sorry but I'm googling for a solution in the virtual box forum too.

Found this on Virtual box forum: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic … 29&t=15679 Is Ubuntu related so I'm not sure how that would or wouldn't help.

Last edited by Moltke (2016-08-22 01:13:03)

Tutti · 2016-08-22 13:07:49

Are you attempting to change the resolution in X or in console, both?
Did you install and load the guest additions?

Moltke · 2016-08-22 21:36:17

Tutti wrote:

Are you attempting to change the resolution in X or in console, both?
Did you install and load the guest additions?

Hi! and hanks for answer. Well, I deleted the VM cause I tried to reinstall the guest additions from the menu>device>insert guest additions iso, but that made things worse. I created a new one and just as I'm wrinting this I haven't installed the guest additions yet. I'm re-reading this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … _Additions And I see this
"Note: You can alternatively install the Guest Additions with the ISO from the virtualbox-guest-iso package, provided you installed this on the host system. To do this, go to the device menu click Insert Guest Additions CD Image." I didn't do it that way last time , but via terminal: pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utils and pacman -S linux-headers cause I read in other post that wouldn't work. This kind of confuses me:
for linux kernel choose virtualbox-guest-modules-arch
for other kernels choose virtualbox-guest-dkms
which one should I choose?

Moltke · 2016-08-23 03:31:33

Moltke wrote:

Tutti wrote:
Are you attempting to change the resolution in X or in console, both?
Did you install and load the guest additions?
Hi! and hanks for answer. Well, I deleted the VM cause I tried to reinstall the guest additions from the menu>device>insert guest additions iso, but that made things worse. I created a new one and just as I'm wrinting this I haven't installed the guest additions yet. I'm re-reading this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … _Additions And I see this
"Note: You can alternatively install the Guest Additions with the ISO from the virtualbox-guest-iso package, provided you installed this on the host system. To do this, go to the device menu click Insert Guest Additions CD Image." I didn't do it that way last time , but via terminal: pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utils and pacman -S linux-headers cause I read in other post that wouldn't work. This kind of confuses me:
for linux kernel choose virtualbox-guest-modules-arch
for other kernels choose virtualbox-guest-dkms
which one should I choose?

Well, I finally made it. Actually, it was an update. I ran pacman -Syu and there was an update for the guest additions, I installed them and finally could change the resolution from the desktop settings.

Last edited by Moltke (2016-08-23 03:32:47)

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deleted Arch VM, created a new one=stuck with resolution (SOLVED)

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Re: deleted Arch VM, created a new one=stuck with resolution (SOLVED)

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