[CoLoCo] vbox resolution help

[Aaron D. Gerber]

I'm using the non-OSE version of VBox 2.0.4 from the virtualbox repo:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

They talk about the differences of versions here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions

Aaron-

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Aaron D. Gerber <gerberad at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>wrote:
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>>> Actually, it's on my desktop which I built and has a dual core Athlon.
>>> However, since I haven't seen any success stories with running Linux on
>>> Linux with scalable resolution I am inclined to think that is the issue
>>> rather than 32bit vs 64bit. Everyone who has this working is running windows
>>> as either guest or host. However, thanks for the tip. I'll try on a 32bit
>>> host OS and see if it works.
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>> Linux on Linux with scalable resolution works for me. I'm using Virtualbox
>> 2 with a Ubuntu 8.10 host  (32-bit i386 with 1920x1200 resolution) with
>> guests: Windows XP (working full-screen scalable resolution and coherence
>> mode), LinuxMint (working full-screen scalable resolution), OpenSUSE
>> (working fullscreen scalable resolution), Mandriva and and Fedora I have not
>> be able to get scalable resolution working yet. OpenSUSE required a package
>> that was not in it's repo and it took me a while to realize that I needed to
>> increase the video memory...
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> Good to know. Maybe it is a 64bit host issue. However, what is the
> difference between vbox 2 and vbox-ose that is in the ubuntu repo? Did you
> download and install a different version? Maybe that's part of the issue. I
> did increase video memory to 128mb which was the max allowed in vbox.
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> Thanks.
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