[vbox-dev] Call for testing, second try (Linux and Solaris Guest Additions)
Louis King Jr
inlieuoflou at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 10:21:07 GMT 2014
The main difference I noticed as I was trying to explain previously with
the latest test and all other previous GAs is, if I have a guest that I
have to log into, previously the log in screen would open to the same size
as the guest was when it was shutdown. Now it opens at a smaller size and
once logged in it resizes to the previous size.
I hope I'm making sense. :)
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Michael Thayer <michael.thayer at oracle.com>
wrote:
> 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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