Guest Additions don't apply initial Host window size

[Malte S. Stretz]

There's a small glitch starting XP with Guest Additions on a Ubuntu 8.04 host: When I maximize the window while the Windows splash screen is still displayed (ie. the graphics driver not loaded), Windows won't recognize the screen size later on and just switch to whatever resolution was configured (800x600 in my case). I have to manually restore and re-maximize the window to get rid of the grey area around the window.

Maybe the Guest Additions/the driver should request the current screen size from the host after they got loaded or after the login or something like that.

[finex]

Could this ticket be considered as a duplicate of ​http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5372 ?

[Malte S. Stretz]

Replying to finex:

Could this ticket be considered as a duplicate of ​http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5372 ?

Jepp, it is. No idea how to mark this a duplicate.

[finex]

Replying to mss:

Jepp, it is. No idea how to mark this a duplicate.

Probably bugtracker admins could do it :-)

This bug has been submitted multiple times, merging them all could be helpful to give it more priority :-)

[Michael Thayer]

This was not reproducible when I tested it on the most recent revision of VirtualBox. I will close it as obsolete.

[Michael Thayer]

Hm, tried it again and it doesn't seem to work after all.

[Michael Thayer]

Ah, this occurs if I maximise the window during boot on a fresh start, but not if the virtual system has just rebooted.

[Florian]

someone with enough rights may close this as dup of #5372...