walt wrote: > On 08/03/2009 11:53 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I >> also followed the ATI Migration guide at >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml. >> >> Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest displays are >> unreadable. Before the upgrade, Virtualbox displays were OK. Basically >> it looks like when one has a bad modeline for X. If I click on the >> guest window to close, I get a Virtualbox pop up asking if I want to >> shutdown or power off the guest. When this pops up, the screen is a >> slightly readable black and white version. Guest machines are Windows 7 >> and Windows XP. Both have the same symptoms. > > Do you have the Windows vbox guest additions installed in the Windows > guests? If so, you should be able to resize the guest window just like > any other X window. Hm, not sure if the guest additions are available > for Win7 yet, but definitely are for XP. Worth a try, anyway.
I know I installed them but maybe I did it when running Virtualbox 2.x. If I can't see the Virtualbox screens, how can I install/re-install the guest additions? Is there some way to do that from a command line? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com
