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dcast

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Registered: 2015-10-15

Posts: 2

xrandr not showing my screens using VirtualBox, xmonad

Objective:

Have multiple monitors managed with arch + xmonad + xrandr over virtual box.

Situation:

1. Installed guest additions in VirtualBox (5.0.6 r103037) on host (Win 8.1) and set the monitor count to 3 (vbox > setting > display > monitor count 3)
2. Followed these steps https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … nux_guests
2.1.

pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utils

2.2.

modprobe -a vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo

2.3. Created /etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf with vboxguest\n vboxsf\n vboxvideo
2.4. Added to  /usr/bin/VBoxClient-all to .xinitrc

When I click "view" in vbox, I see the other screens but nothing appears. When I exec xrandr inside urxvt I only see screen 0 (VGA-0) connected. The other screens just don't show up.

Thank you for the help.

Last edited by dcast (2015-10-16 00:19:18)

dcast

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Registered: 2015-10-15

Posts: 2

Re: xrandr not showing my screens using VirtualBox, xmonad

Would it helped if I showed my Xorg.0.log file?

Here it is: http://pastebin.com/SYKHUpK7