[ale] VirtualBox Linux guest screen resolution

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Sun Jan 28 01:47:20 EST 2018


Already did that.  However, it looks like KDE is stumbling on
acceleration.  I started disabling various things and when I disabled
video acceleration it behaved properly.

On 2018-01-27 22:12, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> Increase the default video RAM to 128MB for the VM.
> 
> On 01/27/2018 10:53 PM, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
>> I'm trying to install a linux gest into VirtualBox but the system has
>> assumed a very small virtual screen resolution.  This is actually the
>> second attempt at installing because the first one had the video mess up
>> after I installed the Guest Additions extensions.  I wanted KDE to run
>> but all of the KDE windows would disappear (worked fine before trying to
>> get the resolution right).
>>
>> I'd appreciate suggestions for installing the guest and getting its
>> resolution correct on the first go. 


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