Bug 19035 - The screens of Mageia 5 i586 or x86-64 VirtualBox guests with virtualbox-guest-additions installed don't get resized when the window is.
Summary: The screens of Mageia 5 i586 or x86-64 VirtualBox guests with virtualbox-gues...
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 5
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Backlund
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Reported: 2016-07-23 15:50 CEST by Shlomi Fish
Modified: 2018-04-25 14:04 CEST (History)
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Description Shlomi Fish 2016-07-23 15:50:19 CEST 
Description of problem:

The screens of Mageia 5 i586 or x86-64 VirtualBox guests with virtualbox-guest-additions installed don't get resized when the window is. They stay at their minimal viewport size. I installed all updates and restarted the guests and it still happens.

I also tried moving away /etc/X11/xorg.conf - didn't help. I recall it working in the past. 

This disrupts my work as a QA tester for mageia v5.

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How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install mageia 5 in vbox.
2. Resize the screen.
3.
Comment 1 Frank Griffin 2016-07-23 16:32:06 CEST 
Do you have View -> Auto-Resize Guest Display checked ?

CC: (none) => ftg

Comment 2 Shlomi Fish 2016-07-23 16:58:31 CEST 
OK, an update - a fresh Mageia v5 x86-64 installation in a vbox VM (Classic DVD after installing the Xfce desktop) and after installing all updates is working fine in this respect (the screen gets resized fine). So now we'll need to find out where the systems differ that causes this bug in the relevant, erroneous, VM.
Comment 3 Shlomi Fish 2016-07-23 17:02:09 CEST 
(In reply to Frank Griffin from comment #1)
> Do you have View -> Auto-Resize Guest Display checked ?

Yes, I do. Also tried toggling it off , resizing, toggling it on, resizing /etc. - it still does not work.
Marja Van Waes 2016-07-23 23:00:51 CEST

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

Comment 4 David Walser 2016-07-24 00:53:58 CEST 
It sounds like you're using the modesetting X.org module instead of vboxvideo.  Boot with the nomodeset kernel command line parameter to fix this.  You may want to restore the xorg.conf you had.
Comment 5 Shlomi Fish 2016-07-24 11:34:45 CEST 
(In reply to David Walser from comment #4)
> It sounds like you're using the modesetting X.org module instead of
> vboxvideo.  Boot with the nomodeset kernel command line parameter to fix
> this.  You may want to restore the xorg.conf you had.

I already restored the xorg.conf I had. Booting with the 'nomodeset' kernel command line parameter (given at the end) did not fix the problem. Does anyone have any other ideas? Is there any more information I can share?
Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2018-04-25 13:33:29 CEST 
@ Shlomi

I suppose this bug report can be closed (or is it still valid in Mga6 or Cauldron)?
Comment 7 Shlomi Fish 2018-04-25 14:04:23 CEST 
(In reply to Marja Van Waes from comment #6)
> @ Shlomi
> 
> I suppose this bug report can be closed (or is it still valid in Mga6 or
> Cauldron)?

Resolving.

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
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