On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am running virtualbox on a windows xp machine with slax linux as guest. > > windows host is running 1024x768 which sounds pathetic but I am > comfortable with it. > > slax client starts at 1280x1024, which means its in a scrollable > window. Its a pain in the proverbial. > > For the life of me I cannot figure out how to adjust the size that > client will be. The only "display" setting seems to be the ram > allocated to the disply driver. Should I just reduce this so that it > thinks it cannot draw such a big screen? > > slax is booting from an .iso. > Its not clear, are you running X11/Xorg on Slax? or are you just using a console? If its just a console, then you'll have to use the vga= style settings the others have mentioned. I don't believe there's something yet that works like guest extensions that low-level :) If you're using X(11|org), then I think you have to tell it your display driver is a virtualbox video card instead of whatever it defaults to. The gentoo equivalent of the required changes can be found here : http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Virtualbox_Guest#X_Configuration_Settings but they should apply to anyone . -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA nocomil.i...@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz
