[vbox-dev] Call for testing, second try (Linux and Solaris Guest Additions)
Louis King Jr
inlieuoflou at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 12:40:27 GMT 2014
You're welcome Michael. Glad to help.
I have the original error back with the 97176 GAs. At least in Ubuntu 15.04.
VBoxClient Internal error retrieving the number of saved screen modes.
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Michael Thayer <michael.thayer at oracle.com>
wrote:
> 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.
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>>
>> <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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