[vbox-dev] Call for testing, second try (Linux and Solaris Guest Additions)

[Louis King Jr]

Michael,

If I understand you correctly, yes remembering modes across shutdowns seems
to work.

I may misunderstand the purpose of the Display>Hint setting in the
VirtualBox preferences. Does that only work when you are first creating a
guest? I ask because changing the resolution makes no difference after the
guest is created.

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Michael Thayer <michael.thayer at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Hello Louis,
>
> Hint handling was actually one of the things which should be fixed.
> Remembering saved modes is not compatible between old and new Additions (I
> could have fixed that, but normally it will only be needed once, when you
> upgrade, so I preferred to keep the code simple and hopefully reliable), as
> the new mechanism works for all guest screens and not just the first one,
> and saves more information.  Expect that to change again once in the near
> future though I'm afraid.
>
> Does remembering modes work when you shut down and start up again with new
> Additions?
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Michael
>
> On 04.12.2014 21:55, Louis King Jr wrote:
>
>> Apparently the "Hint" preference was fixed because now if I set the
>> Display Hint in VirtualBox to 1920x1080 it actually opens to that size.
>> Hint never worked before.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Louis King Jr <inlieuoflou at gmail.com
>> <mailto:inlieuoflou at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Michael.
>>
>>     The problem I had yesterday is fixed. I didn't try to recreate the
>>     new one. I haven't noticed any thing different except, I actually
>>     installed the test build for OSX instead of just the GAs. Something
>>     that has changed is, the guests no longer remember what size they
>>     were when shutdown. Normally I have all guests set to 1920x1080 and
>>     when I start them they opened to that size. Now they don 't.
>>
>>     On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Michael Thayer
>>     <michael.thayer at oracle.com <mailto:michael.thayer at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Second try<1>, hopefully with the first regression fixed.  I have
>>         already found one new one myself: I started a terminal, switched
>> to
>>         seamless mode, switched to a virtual terminal and back and
>>         cancelled the
>>         switch back to seamless.  Result: the second guest screen was
>>         set to a
>>         0x0 resolution (checked with xrandr) and blacked out.
>>
>>         All additional testing is welcome, I will fix my regression
>>         tomorrow and
>>         any others (if there are any, which is quite likely) as fast as
>>         I can as
>>         they are reported!
>>
>>         Thanks!
>>
>>         Regards,
>>
>>         Michael
>>
>>         <1> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds
>>
>>         On 03.12.2014 22:43, Michael Thayer wrote:
>>          > A number of changes and fixes were made to the graphics
>>         components of
>>          > the Linux and Solaris Guest Additions recently, particularly
>>         related to
>>          > disappearing guest screens and switches to virtual
>>         terminals.  I would
>>          > really appreciate any testing by anyone who uses these guests
>>         to make
>>          > sure that I haven't introduced any regressions with the
>>         fixes.  If you
>>          > would like to help please download a Guest Additions test
>>         build<1> (the
>>          > changes may not all be in the other builds yet), install it,
>>         use it and
>>          > let me know if any new problems have appeared.  I hope they
>>         will not,
>>          > but I would rather know about it.
>>          >
>>          > Thanks!
>>          >
>>          > Michael
>>          >
>>          > <1> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds
>>          >
>>
>>
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