Getting X to init corectly W/O a monitor conected

[Hermann J. Beckers]

Am Donnerstag 27 August 2009 schrieb stan:
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> aFair enough question. here is the rest of the story. The purpose of this
> amchine is to be a VirtualBox host f an XP machine. We VNC to the XP
> machine to do work. XP comes up in an unusable res/color depth if X is not
> correct, when it starts. Too bad we can't run XP headless.

Why don't you start a VNC session with a reasonabel resolution on the remote 
and in this VNC session you could start the VirtualBox session. Should work 
because you have a defined X environment.

HTH
hjb