Ubuntu 10.10 and VirtualBox

[Graham Watkins]

Hi,

I thought I'd have a look at 10.10 beta so I installed it in VirtualBox.

Anyway, I seem to be stuck with a screen resolution of 800 x 600 which I 
am unable to change for the better.  This is a particular nuisance 
because I am stuck with a small screen display, the size of which I 
cannot increase.

"Disable Guest Display Auto-resize" which might fix it is greyed out the 
Machine menu.

I know this a problem peculiar to Ubuntu as I also have Mint 9 installed 
and I am able to maximise screen size on this (Display size 1280 x 903).

Guest additions have been installed and reinstalled.  However on the 
reinstall I noticed the following output:

VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
............
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.
Installing the Windows System drivers
Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed. Not 
installing the X Window System drivers.
Installing graphics libraries and desktop services components ... done
Press Return to close this window...

The warning seems significant.

Google turned up the following:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/VirtualBox  (see Guest Additions In Jaunty)

The instructions there refer to earlier versions of both Ubuntu and 
VirtualBox and do not appear to apply to those I am running.  (There is 
no install.sh and I cannot find a similar line in autorun.sh.)

Does anyone have any idea what I can do about this or am I just going to 
have to wait for VirtualBox to get up to speed? It is version 3.2.8 - 
the latest so far  as I know.

Yours baffled,


Graham