Bug 2794

Summary:	Not able to increase the Screen Resolution from 1024x768 (Guest Fedora 18)where as host is running at 1366x768
Product:	Fedora	Reporter:	Biswajit Sadhu <biswajit.sadhu>
Component:	VirtualBox	Assignee:	Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Status:	RESOLVED EXPIRED
Severity:	major	CC:	lxtnow, sergio
Priority:	P5
Version:	18
Hardware:	i386
OS:	GNU/Linux
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Description Biswajit Sadhu 2013-05-15 07:02:50 CEST

***Screen Resolution issue**** 

I've installed Fedora 18 32bit guest into a Oracle VM Virtualbox running on a windows 7 host. Previously I've installed Fedora 16 and after installing guest additions from the rpm fusion repo full screen mode worked by re-sizing to the same resolution as the host machine.

However on Fedora 18 after installing guest additions and running in full screen mode the guest runs at 1024x768. The host is running at 1366x768. 

Is there a way to alleviate this? Perhaps to get Fedora to run a custom resolution?

Comment 1 Biswajit Sadhu 2013-05-15 07:08:19 CEST

I would like to add when i was having fedora 16 as my guest OS prior to Fedora 18.
At tat time it was working fine. The resolution what i used it get in fedora 16 as same at the actual resolution of the monitor.

Comment 2 Nicolas Chauvet 2013-05-19 15:45:42 CEST

It's unrelated to the component you've picked. (intel video acceleration).
You need to install the virtual-guest addition for your version of VirtualBox. into fedora.
Please try to find some documentation about this over the web.
I cannot help further as this is a bug tracker, not a support forum.

Comment 3 Biswajit Sadhu 2013-05-20 09:49:14 CEST

Hi,


You are right the part number i had chosen might be wrong as i was not sure what part number i should chose.


I already had installed virtual-guest addition but there is some issue. I guess its BUG. 
I am facing this issue with Fedora 18 before this i was having fedora16 but i didnot have any issue in that.

I am attaching the logs.

root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]# sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.2.10 Guest Additions for Linux..........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 4.2.10 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules           [  OK  ]
Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules       [  OK  ]
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules     [  OK  ]
Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions              [  OK  ]
Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions                    [FAILED]
(modprobe vboxguest failed)
Installing the Window System drivers
Installing X.Org Server 1.13 modules                       [  OK  ]
Setting up the Window System to use the Guest Additions    [  OK  ]
You may need to restart the hal service and the Window System (or just restart
the guest system) to enable the Guest Additions.

Installing graphics libraries and desktop services componen[  OK  ]

                    ----------------------------------

[root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]# cat /var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log 

Starting vboxadd (via systemctl):  Job for vboxadd.service failed. See 'systemctl status vboxadd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
[FAILED]
Starting vboxadd-service (via systemctl):  Job for vboxadd-service.service failed. See 'systemctl status vboxadd-service.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
[FAILED]
Starting vboxadd-x11 (via systemctl):  [  OK  ]
[root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]# 


                  -----------------------------------------

[root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]# systemctl status vboxadd.service

vboxadd.service - LSB: VirtualBox Linux Additions kernel modules
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/vboxadd)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2013-05-20 03:37:22 EDT; 4min 54s ago

May 20 03:37:22 localhost.localdomain vboxadd[9543]: Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions [FAILED]
May 20 03:37:22 localhost.localdomain vboxadd[9543]: (modprobe vboxguest failed)
May 20 03:37:22 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: vboxadd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
May 20 03:37:22 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: VirtualBox Linux Additions kernel modules.
May 20 03:37:22 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit vboxadd.service entered failed state.
[root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]#

Comment 4 Sérgio Basto 2013-05-20 15:41:30 CEST

(In reply to comment #3)
> Hi,
> 
> 
> You are right the part number i had chosen might be wrong as i was not sure
> what part number i should chose.
> 
> 
> I already had installed virtual-guest addition but there is some issue. I guess
> its BUG. 
> I am facing this issue with Fedora 18 before this i was having fedora16 but i
> didnot have any issue in that.
> 
> I am attaching the logs.
> 
> root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]# sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
> Verifying archive integrity... All good.
> Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.2.10 Guest Additions for Linux..........
> VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
> Removing installed version 4.2.10 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
> Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules           [  OK  ]
> Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules       [  OK  ]
> Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules     [  OK  ]
> Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions              [  OK  ]
> Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions                    [FAILED]
> (modprobe vboxguest failed)
> Installing the Window System drivers
> Installing X.Org Server 1.13 modules                       [  OK  ]
> Setting up the Window System to use the Guest Additions    [  OK  ]
> You may need to restart the hal service and the Window System (or just restart
> the guest system) to enable the Guest Additions.
> 
> Installing graphics libraries and desktop services componen[  OK  ]
> 
>                     ----------------------------------
> 
> [root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]# cat /var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log 
> 
> Starting vboxadd (via systemctl):  Job for vboxadd.service failed. See
> 'systemctl status vboxadd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
> [FAILED]
> Starting vboxadd-service (via systemctl):  Job for vboxadd-service.service
> failed. See 'systemctl status vboxadd-service.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for
> details.
> [FAILED]
> Starting vboxadd-x11 (via systemctl):  [  OK  ]
> [root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]# 
> 
> 
>                   -----------------------------------------
> 
> [root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]# systemctl status vboxadd.service
> 
> vboxadd.service - LSB: VirtualBox Linux Additions kernel modules
>    Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/vboxadd)
>    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2013-05-20 03:37:22 EDT; 4min
> 54s ago
> 
> May 20 03:37:22 localhost.localdomain vboxadd[9543]: Starting the VirtualBox
> Guest Additions [FAILED]
> May 20 03:37:22 localhost.localdomain vboxadd[9543]: (modprobe vboxguest
> failed)
> May 20 03:37:22 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: vboxadd.service: control
> process exited, code=exited status=1
> May 20 03:37:22 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB:
> VirtualBox Linux Additions kernel modules.
> May 20 03:37:22 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit vboxadd.service entered
> failed state.
> [root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]#

please remove all things generated by sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

and do :
yum install VirtualBox-guest kmod-VirtualBox 

since you are using a stable release (F18) 
this command will install all services and kmod that you are seeing failing .

Comment 5 Biswajit Sadhu 2013-05-21 07:30:02 CEST

Removed all the old stuffs :

[root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run uninstall
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.2.10 Guest Additions for Linux..........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 4.2.10 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...


Trying to install vis yum( says NO Packge):

[root@localhost VirtualBoxGuestAdditions]# yum install VirtualBox-guest kmod-VirtualBox
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
No package VirtualBox-guest available.
No package kmod-VirtualBox available.
Error: Nothing to do


Please correct me if i am doing anything wrong..

Comment 6 Sérgio Basto 2013-05-21 17:51:50 CEST

have you enable rpmfusion repos ? 
please read: 
http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration 

Thanks,