Bug #7728
Suboptimal display resolution in VirtualBox
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Description
This is might be due to Bug #7602.
Note: My normal resolution is 1680x1050.
Outside of Tails
With the VirtualBox guest packages that are included in Debian, my guest machines work as one would potentially expect. The resolution upon booting is at 1024x768 but if I switch to a full screen display in my virtualbox guest, the resolution matches my workstation’s 1680x1050. At no point is the screen bigger than my display.
In Tails
In Tails, however, the resolution is set to 1600x1200. This means that by default the virtualbox window containing the tails session doesn’t fit on my screen. I can change it after logging in (or just deal with a missing part of the screen), but it’d be better if the resolution could be reduced to something that’s practically guaranteed to work, like 1024x768, 1280x1024, etc.)
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Resolved | 2015-08-23 |
History
#1 Updated by kytv 2014-08-02 21:14:13
- related to
Bug #7602: Reintroduce VirtualBox support added
#2 Updated by intrigeri 2014-08-03 09:19:27
> With the VirtualBox guest packages that are included in Debian, my guest machines […]
It could be useful to make it clear what exact version of the guest packages these VMs are running.
> In Tails, however, the resolution is set to 1600x1200.
May you please confirm that the guest kernel modules are loaded, and the guest services are running?
> Related to Bug Bug #7602: Reintroduce VirtualBox support added
This only affects Tails based on Jessie. If you’re testing a Tails ISO based on Wheezy, then this is unrelated.
#3 Updated by intrigeri 2014-08-03 09:21:04
- Subject changed from "wrong" resolution in virtualbox to Suboptimal display resolution in VirtualBox
- Assignee set to kytv
- Target version deleted (
Tails_2.0) - QA Check set to Info Needed
#4 Updated by kytv 2014-08-03 12:44:50
- related to deleted (
Bug #7602: Reintroduce VirtualBox support
#5 Updated by kytv 2014-08-03 12:51:40
- Assignee changed from kytv to intrigeri
- QA Check changed from Info Needed to Dev Needed
Sorry, this is in Wheezy. I’ve unlinked the other ticket.
root@amnesia:~# COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l '*virtualbox*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===============================-====================-====================-====================================================================
un virtualbox-guest-dkms <none> (no description available)
un virtualbox-guest-source <none> (no description available)
ii virtualbox-guest-utils 4.3.12-dfsg-1~bpo70+ i386 x86 virtualization solution - non-X11 guest utilities
ii virtualbox-guest-x11 4.3.12-dfsg-1~bpo70+ i386 x86 virtualization solution - X11 guest utilities
root@amnesia:~# lsmod |grep 'drm\|vbox'
vboxsf 37350 0
vboxvideo 12437 0
drm 236561 1 vboxvideo
vboxguest 189903 2 vboxsf
i2c_core 28324 2 drm,i2c_piix4
root@amnesia:~# /etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-utils status
VBoxService daemon isn't running
root@amnesia:~# /etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-utils start
[....] Starting VirtualBox AdditionsVBoxService 4.3.12_Debian r93733 (verbosity: 0) linux.x86 (Jun 12 2014 03:53:18) release log
00:00:00.000354 main Log opened 2014-08-03T12:48:42.986633000Z
00:00:00.000438 main OS Product: Linux
00:00:00.000453 main OS Release: 3.14-2-amd64
00:00:00.000469 main OS Version: #1 SMP Debian 3.14.13-2 (2014-07-24)
00:00:00.000482 main OS Service Pack: #1 SMP Debian 3.14.13-2 (2014-07-24)
00:00:00.000500 main Executable: /usr/sbin/VBoxService
00:00:00.000508 main Process ID: 5862
00:00:00.000515 main Package type: LINUX_32BITS_GENERIC (OSE)
00:00:00.000560 main Error: Failed to connect to the guest property service, rc=VERR_INVALID_FUNCTION
00:00:00.000578 main Error: Service 'control' failed pre-init: VERR_INVALID_FUNCTION
failed!
#6 Updated by intrigeri 2014-08-03 13:52:17
- Status changed from New to Confirmed
- Assignee changed from intrigeri to sajolida
- QA Check deleted (
Dev Needed)
Thanks for the additional info! So, the guest utils don’t start properly, interesting.
sajolida: IIRC you reintroduced VirtualBox support in 1.1, may you please have look / try to reproduce?
#7 Updated by sajolida 2014-08-04 18:56:23
Do you think that having display management service enabled by default would fix your problem. That’s Feature #5730 and want to work on this for Tails 1.2.
#8 Updated by sajolida 2014-08-04 18:56:46
- related to
Feature #5730: Virtualbox guest additions: enable by default the display management service added
#9 Updated by kytv 2014-08-04 21:57:34
sajolida wrote:
> Do you think that having display management service enabled by default would fix your problem.
Perhaps, but if I run
sudo VBoxClient --display, I don’t see a change in behaviour.
#10 Updated by sajolida 2014-09-29 01:38:23
- Type of work changed from Code to Wait
This might be solved by in Tails 1.2 by Feature #5730. Let’s wait and see…
#11 Updated by intrigeri 2014-09-29 05:36:09
- Assignee changed from sajolida to kytv
- QA Check set to Info Needed
- Type of work changed from Wait to Code
Kill Your TV, may you please try to reproduce this bug with a current build from the devel branch?
#12 Updated by sajolida 2014-11-16 11:11:33
- Category changed from Hardware support to Virtualization
#13 Updated by sajolida 2015-08-25 09:45:42
- related to
Bug #10077: Tails 1.5 has resolution 720x366 in VirtualBox added
#14 Updated by intrigeri 2015-12-05 15:32:38
- Target version set to Tails_2.0
Can you reproduce this on a current build from feature/jessie?
#15 Updated by intrigeri 2016-01-09 17:48:39
Ping? Last call to include a fix for that issue in Tails 2.0 :)
#16 Updated by intrigeri 2016-02-18 20:47:21
- Target version changed from Tails_2.0 to Tails_2.2
(Tails 2.0 was released and I’d like to close the corresponding target version in Redmine accordingly.)
#17 Updated by intrigeri 2016-02-18 20:48:11
- Status changed from Confirmed to Rejected
- Assignee deleted (
kytv) - Target version deleted (
Tails_2.2)
The requested info was not provided since a year, closing.