----- Original Message ---- From: Stephen Liu <[email protected]> To: Community mailing list of VirtualBox users <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, May 14, 2010 6:13:20 PM Subject: [VBox-users] Screen resolution problem
Hi folks, Host - ubuntu 10.04 64bit VM - Ubuntu 10.04 64bit I tried increasing screen resolution. After booting up VM and login in on console ran $ cd /cdrom $ sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions_amd64.run it went through without complain. Logout and relogin. The screen became a white full screen. Please help. B.R. SL ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hi folks, Solution found as follow; Boot up the VM. It is only a white screen On host console run; $ ssh VM_ip_address login VM $ sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf to create an empty file. Put following lines on it[code] Section "Device" Identifier "VirtualBox Video Card" Driver "vboxvideo" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "VBoxMouse" Driver "vboxmouse" Option "CorePointer" EndSection [/code] then run; $ sudo /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup[code] Removing old VirtualBox vboxvideo kernel module ...done. Removing old VirtualBox vboxvfs kernel module ...done. Removing old VirtualBox vboxguest kernel module ...done. Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules Building the main Guest Additions module ...done. Building the shared folder support module ...done. Building the OpenGL support module ...done. Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions ...done. You should restart your guest to make sure the new modules are actually used [/code] Reboot the VM That is ALL. The VM is working now. Screen can be resized. B.R. SL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
