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wombatvvv

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Registered: 2016-07-29

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Can't get dual-monitors (or full screen) to work in VirtualBox :(

Hello,

I have just installed a Arch on VirtualBox 6.0 running on a Windows 10 host. I've installed the VirtualBox Extensions on the Windows environment and the virtualbox-guest-utils package on the Arch installation.

Other than that the installation is very fresh and has not much else (I've installed X-org stuff and openbox).

First of all, I in full-screen mode, Arch is displayed in a small cropped box about 50% the size of the screen (the rest is just black). Second, I don't get two monitors (I don't even get two windows in virtual box in non-full-screen-mode).

The VirtualBox graphics controller is VMSVGA (I've tried them all though) with 3D enabled.

Can anyone help me with this?

My hunch is that guest additions just isn't being installed properly, because other guest-additions functionality doesn't seem to work either. But how else would I do it other than just installing the virtualbox-guest-utils package?

Thanks!

Edit: the exact package I'm installing is "virtualbox-guest-utils-6.0.10-1".

Edit 2: I actually can get a few of the Vbox guest additions features running after running the script "VBoxClient-all". So I guess it is installed properly then.

FWIW:

$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
Virtual-1 connected primary 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   preferred     60.00*+
   2560x1600     59.99  
   1920x1440     60.00  
   1856x1392     60.00  
   1792x1344     60.00  
   1920x1200     59.88  
   1600x1200     60.00  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1280x1024     60.02  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1360x768      60.02  
   1280x800      59.81  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1280x768      59.87  
   1024x768      60.00  
   800x600       60.32  
   640x480       59.94  
Virtual-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Virtual-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Virtual-4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Virtual-5 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Virtual-6 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Virtual-7 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Virtual-8 disconnected

Last edited by wombatvvv (2019-07-26 12:03:27)