Bug #11456
Tails in VirtualBox 4.3.x is 800x600
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Description
Tails in VirtualBox is smaller than I remember. I believe the right size is 1024x768 or something like that. I had the same problem with VMWare like a year ago (Bug #7595) so I switched to VirtualBox and I think it worked right for a while. I’m using Tails 2.3. I can enlarge the VirtualBox window but isn’t it supposed to be for anonymity purposes that we all have the same size screen in tails? I don’t want to create a uniqueness factor.
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Resolved | 2015-08-23 |
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#1 Updated by intrigeri 2016-05-21 19:21:25
- Assignee set to soulplane11
> I believe the right size is 1024x768 or something like that.
That’s typically the case when the VM is not configured exactly like https://tails.boum.org/doc/advanced_topics/virtualization/virtualbox/ suggests. It might be that you also need to enable 2D/3D acceleration for the VM.
#2 Updated by soulplane11 2016-05-21 22:59:08
intrigeri wrote:
> > I believe the right size is 1024x768 or something like that.
>
> That’s typically the case when the VM is not configured exactly like https://tails.boum.org/doc/advanced_topics/virtualization/virtualbox/ suggests. It might be that you also need to enable 2D/3D acceleration for the VM.
Thanks but I was unable to get it to show the bigger size by default. I created a new profile for Tails using the directions and there was no change. I also tried increasing video memory to the maximum and there was no change. I also tried enabling 3d acceleration (it wouldn’t let me enable 2d) and there was no change.
I guess this isn’t very important because I’ve noticed that after tails loads if I maximize the VirtualBox screen for Tails in the host it works fine. The browser seems to show up at the right common size and not maximized.
#3 Updated by intrigeri 2016-05-22 07:45:56
> Thanks but I was unable to get it to show the bigger size by default.
Thanks for trying! In particular, can you confirm that you created a 32-bit VM?
#4 Updated by soulplane11 2016-05-22 19:41:03
intrigeri wrote:
> > Thanks but I was unable to get it to show the bigger size by default.
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> Thanks for trying! In particular, can you confirm that you created a 32-bit VM?
Yeah I did what it said in the instructions, Linux Other 32-bit.
#5 Updated by intrigeri 2016-05-23 11:38:34
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soulplane11) - Type of work changed from Debian to Research
So I have no clue what’s going on, and I’ll leave it to frontdesk to handle it since they may have more experience than me with such problems.
#6 Updated by emmapeel 2016-08-19 12:12:37
- Assignee set to soulplane11
Could you please report with WhisperBack from the instance, so we can see in the log what is going on, which error has, etc?
(Please add the ticket number to the report)
#7 Updated by emmapeel 2016-08-19 12:13:59
- Status changed from New to Confirmed
#8 Updated by emmapeel 2016-08-19 12:15:20
Maybe also you can test this ISO:
http://nightly.tails.boum.org/build_Tails_ISO_feature-from-intrigeri-for-2.6/lastSuccessful/
#9 Updated by soulplane11 2016-08-19 23:13:15
emmapeel wrote:
> Could you please report with WhisperBack from the instance, so we can see in the log what is going on, which error has, etc?
>
> (Please add the ticket number to the report)
Sorry no. I am no longer using VirtualBox 4. I switched to VB 5 and tried a bunch of different resolutions. You can see the results at https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/10077#note-6
#10 Updated by intrigeri 2016-08-23 00:39:21
- Assignee changed from soulplane11 to emmapeel
#11 Updated by Anonymous 2018-01-19 16:48:55
- Status changed from Confirmed to Rejected
Hm, no additional info was provided and nobody can reproduce this. Rejecting. Please reopen if necessary.
#12 Updated by Anonymous 2018-01-19 16:49:19
- related to
Bug #10077: Tails 1.5 has resolution 720x366 in VirtualBox added