[vbox-dev] Call for testing, second try (Linux and Solaris Guest Additions)
Michael Thayer
michael.thayer at oracle.com
Fri Dec 5 10:10:09 GMT 2014
Hello Louis,
The display hint setting is for restricting the maximum size of
resolution a guest can set. X11 guests ignore this entirely as all
resolutions except the very first one are requested by the user, and I
assume that if the user asks for something then they know what they want.
Just testing a fix for remembering modes across shut-downs between old
and new Additions - after thinking about this a bit, I concluded that
although it would ideally only affect every user once, that still adds
up to quite a number of times.
Regards,
Michael
On 05.12.2014 10:19, Louis King Jr wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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
> <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
> <https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds>
> >
>
>
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