Comments on: Ubuntu 8.10 as a guest in VirtualBox

By: Mouse support for Ubuntu in Virtualbox « My Small Little Notebook…

Mouse support for Ubuntu in Virtualbox « My Small Little Notebook… — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:47:15 +0000

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By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:11:40 +0000

I’m experiencing the same problem as Shek and Goran. Mouse grabbing works great, but I still can’t set my resolution higher than 800×600

By: Goran

Goran — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:54:50 +0000

Thank you, Julien
My host is Ubuntu 8.04, virtualbox 2.0.4 on amd64, and I had the same problem. It did get solved by adding vboxvideo as a driver in xorg.conf. I didn’t experienced mouse problem – grabbing works OK.

Goran

By: Shek

Shek — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:13:36 +0000

Hi, I’ve the same problem but editing the xorg.conf didn’t resolve the problem for me:(

By: Julien

Julien — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:46:21 +0000

I had a look at this bug. It is only related to Debian packaging. As I use Sun’s VirtualBox packages (as well as guest additions, to benefit from the newest release), the bugs I have described might be different. I will check what I can find about this.

Cheers,
Julien

By: Julien

Julien — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:05:39 +0000

Obviously, VBox additions are required (that’s what I meant with “VirtualBox clients”).

And, yes, it seems to be bug #490541 regarding video driver. I guess the same bug should be reported for the mouse driver. Will have a look at it tonight.

Cheers,
Julien

By: Avi Rozen

Avi Rozen — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:39:22 +0000

The vboxvideo problem is probably Debian bug #490541

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490541

By: Tiago Faria

Tiago Faria — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:35:09 +0000

… and installing Guest Additions is always recommended too.