You're welcome Michael. Glad to help. I have the original error back with the 97176 GAs. At least in Ubuntu 15.04.
VBoxClient Internal error retrieving the number of saved screen modes. On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Michael Thayer <[email protected]> wrote: > Now I get what you mean. Yes, I re-did a lot of that code, and > unfortunately I was not able to keep the resizing at the log-in screen in a > clean way. (The old code was far from clean, witness many of the bugs > which are now fixed.) In the mean-time I have thought of a way to do it, > which will be a bit more effort but I hope to start on very soon. > > All currently known bugs should be fixed with r97176, which should hit the > test build page<1> in an hour or so. Note that only the Additions build > will contain all fixes, as the other builds often contain Additions which > are one or two revisions older. > > Thanks for your testing. > > Regards, > > Michael > > <1> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds > > On 05.12.2014 11:21, Louis King Jr wrote: > >> The main difference I noticed as I was trying to explain previously with >> the latest test and all other previous GAs is, if I have a guest that I >> have to log into, previously the log in screen would open to the same >> size as the guest was when it was shutdown. Now it opens at a smaller >> size and once logged in it resizes to the previous size. >> >> I hope I'm making sense. :) >> >> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Michael Thayer >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hello Louis, >> >> The display hint setting is for restricting the maximum size of >> resolution a guest can set. X11 guests ignore this entirely as all >> resolutions except the very first one are requested by the user, and >> I assume that if the user asks for something then they know what >> they want. >> >> Just testing a fix for remembering modes across shut-downs between >> old and new Additions - after thinking about this a bit, I concluded >> that although it would ideally only affect every user once, that >> still adds up to quite a number of times. >> >> Regards, >> >> Michael >> >> On 05.12.2014 10:19, Louis King Jr wrote: >> >> Michael, >> >> If I understand you correctly, yes remembering modes across >> shutdowns >> seems to work. >> >> I may misunderstand the purpose of the Display>Hint setting in the >> VirtualBox preferences. Does that only work when you are first >> creating >> a guest? I ask because changing the resolution makes no >> difference after >> the guest is created. >> >> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Michael Thayer >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> <mailto:michael.thayer@oracle.__com >> <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: >> >> Hello Louis, >> >> Hint handling was actually one of the things which should >> be fixed. >> Remembering saved modes is not compatible between old and new >> Additions (I could have fixed that, but normally it will >> only be >> needed once, when you upgrade, so I preferred to keep the >> code >> simple and hopefully reliable), as the new mechanism works >> for all >> guest screens and not just the first one, and saves more >> information. Expect that to change again once in the near >> future >> though I'm afraid. >> >> Does remembering modes work when you shut down and start up >> again >> with new Additions? >> >> Thanks and regards, >> >> Michael >> >> On 04.12.2014 21:55, Louis King Jr wrote: >> >> Apparently the "Hint" preference was fixed because now >> if I set the >> Display Hint in VirtualBox to 1920x1080 it actually >> opens to >> that size. >> Hint never worked before. >> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Louis King Jr >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> <mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>>__>__> >> wrote: >> >> Michael. >> >> The problem I had yesterday is fixed. I didn't try >> to >> recreate the >> new one. I haven't noticed any thing different >> except, I >> actually >> installed the test build for OSX instead of just >> the GAs. >> Something >> that has changed is, the guests no longer remember >> what >> size they >> were when shutdown. Normally I have all guests set >> to >> 1920x1080 and >> when I start them they opened to that size. Now >> they don 't. >> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Michael Thayer >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> <mailto:michael.thayer@oracle.__com >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> <mailto:michael.thayer@oracle. >> <mailto:michael.thayer@oracle.>____com >> >> <mailto:michael.thayer@oracle.__com >> <mailto:[email protected]>>>> wrote: >> >> Second try<1>, hopefully with the first >> regression >> fixed. I have >> already found one new one myself: I started a >> terminal, >> switched to >> seamless mode, switched to a virtual terminal >> and back and >> cancelled the >> switch back to seamless. Result: the second >> guest >> screen was >> set to a >> 0x0 resolution (checked with xrandr) and >> blacked out. >> >> All additional testing is welcome, I will fix >> my regression >> tomorrow and >> any others (if there are any, which is quite >> likely) as >> fast as >> I can as >> they are reported! >> >> Thanks! >> >> Regards, >> >> Michael >> >> <1> >> https://www.virtualbox.org/____wiki/Testbuilds >> <https://www.virtualbox.org/__wiki/Testbuilds> >> >> >> <https://www.virtualbox.org/__wiki/Testbuilds >> <https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds>> >> >> On 03.12.2014 22:43, Michael Thayer wrote: >> > A number of changes and fixes were made to >> the graphics >> components of >> > the Linux and Solaris Guest Additions >> recently, >> particularly >> related to >> > disappearing guest screens and switches to >> virtual >> terminals. I would >> > really appreciate any testing by anyone who >> uses >> these guests >> to make >> > sure that I haven't introduced any >> regressions with the >> fixes. If you >> > would like to help please download a Guest >> Additions >> test >> build<1> (the >> > changes may not all be in the other builds >> yet), >> install it, >> use it and >> > let me know if any new problems have >> appeared. I >> hope they >> will not, >> > but I would rather know about it. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > Michael >> > >> > <1> >> https://www.virtualbox.org/____wiki/Testbuilds >> <https://www.virtualbox.org/__wiki/Testbuilds> >> <https://www.virtualbox.org/__wiki/Testbuilds >> <https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds>> >> > >> >> >> -- >> ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. 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KG Michael Thayer > Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering > 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] > > Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 > Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz > > Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. > Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande > Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 > Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher >
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