[vbox-dev] Call for testing, second try (Linux and Solaris Guest Additions)
Michael Thayer
michael.thayer at oracle.com
Fri Dec 5 11:15:07 GMT 2014
Now I get what you mean. Yes, I re-did a lot of that code, and
unfortunately I was not able to keep the resizing at the log-in screen
in a clean way. (The old code was far from clean, witness many of the
bugs which are now fixed.) In the mean-time I have thought of a way to
do it, which will be a bit more effort but I hope to start on very soon.
All currently known bugs should be fixed with r97176, which should hit
the test build page<1> in an hour or so. Note that only the Additions
build will contain all fixes, as the other builds often contain
Additions which are one or two revisions older.
Thanks for your testing.
Regards,
Michael
<1> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds
On 05.12.2014 11:21, Louis King Jr wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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>>
> <mailto: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>>
> <mailto:michael.thayer at oracle.
> <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>
>
> <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>
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