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virtualbox-ose package

  1. Bug #283767
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Comment 1 for bug 283767

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Elias K Gardner (zorkerz) wrote :

Thanks for reporting. I believe this is an upstream bug with virtualbox. I think there is a bug report up there as well. I have run into this before and think the problem is that x or the guest additions do not specify the virtualbox graphics driver. Try this.

1)edit xorg.conf with nano or another text editor

'sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf'

2)go down to the section "Device" and add Driver "vboxvideo" so it looks like this

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Configured Video Device"
        Driver "vboxvideo"
EndSection

3) restart the virtualbox guest machine

This should allow the resolution to be high and allow the autoresize feature of the guest additions.
you can also look at this discussion of the issue http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=926408

I am going to close the bug, however if you problem is not fixed please reopen it. And attempt to explain where I misread the bug.

good luck