From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:41:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h5etih$ui9$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A783C0E.2020001@mykitchentable.net>
On 08/04/2009 06:47 AM, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> walt wrote:
>> 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...
That wasn't very clear. I was thinking that resizing the guest window
might make the out-of-sync Windows screen snap into sync.
> 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?
Yes, your guest additions may be out of date now. At the top left of the
vbox guest window click 'Devices' and then 'Install guest additions'.
I don't recall if you need to be able to read the Windows screen to do
this, though.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-06 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-04 6:53 [gentoo-user] Virtualbox Display Broken After xorg Upgrade Drew Tomlinson
2009-08-04 12:52 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-08-04 13:47 ` Drew Tomlinson
2009-08-06 15:41 ` walt [this message]
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