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opticyclic

Member

Registered: 2011-10-10

Posts: 1

Screen Resolution In VirtualBox

I have downloaded SliTaz cooking and installed it in VirtualBox, however, I am having the same resolution problems that lots of others are reporting.

In order to get the VirtualBox Guest Additions installed I had to do a few things.

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tazpkg get-install slitaz-toolchain

tazpkg get-install linux-api-headers

tazpkg get-install linux-module-headers

cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.4_74291

./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

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This didn't install smoothly though.

However, the shared folders appeared to work.

I had to add the following line to the end of /etc/rcS.conf in order to make them mount every boot.

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mount -t vboxsf C_DRIVE /media/C_DRIVE

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Talking of every boot, I also had to do this to prevent it from prompting me for the language settings every boot.

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tazpkg get-install slitaz-boot-scripts --force

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I have installed lxrandr so that I have a Monitor Settings dialog in Preferences, however, I can't seem to resize the window with VirtualBox and have SliTaz resize automatically.

Even when I do it manually I get messages like

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You cannot turn off all monitors. Otherwise you will not be able to turn them on again since this tool is not accessable whithout monitor.

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The 2 spelling mistakes are from the tool not me!

Has anyone got SliTaz fully working in VirtualBox with auto-screen-resizing?

enigma9o7

Member

Registered: 2020-03-22

Posts: 77

Re: Screen Resolution In VirtualBox

I wanted to change resolution for slitaz in virtualbox 6.1, and lxarandr only offered me a few bad choices.  I tried to install current vbox extensions and ran into above issues, installed the slitaz packages listed above, and then it installed great!  I did have to use the old vboxSVGA driver, not VMware...

So thanks OP, I imagine in the last 9 years OP found a solution or workaround, but incase others search like me.  After reboot lxarandr listed many more resolution choices, but for some reason none in the range I typically use for virtual machines (1280-1360x720-768-800).  If I resized my virtualbox window it didn't automatically resize like some other distros, instead adding whitespace or scrollbars - but after doing so I could go into lxarandr and whatever arbitrary value I'd resized my window too was listed above all the other choices, thus achieving desired result.