multi-screen handling on multi-screen workstations not remembered after guest restarts

[Mark Smith]

I have a guest instance of W7 configured to have 3 screens. Each of them is running on each of the 3 gnome workspaces (of a total of 6). Each of the 3 gnome workspaces is made up of two physical monitors. The host is Ubuntu 11.04 (now unsupported) running Gnome 2.32.1.

When I start up this guest, all the guest screens appears on gnome workspace that is currently in focus. Each VM window is fully expanded to the size of only one of the physical monitors, instead of both of them. I manually enlarge it so it expands across both monitors. I then move each of the guest screens to reside on one gnome workspace.

the next time i boot this guest, each of the guest screens appear on the currently focused gnome screen, but only in one of the physical monitors of the two that make up the gnome workspace.

1. i want each guest screen to go to the size i had it originally which spans both of my physical monitors.
2. i want each guest screen to go to the gnome screen that i moved it to.

basically, i want it to remember my settings. each time i boot the guest i have to do all of this manually. it's certainly not impossible, but it's annoying to have to do it again and again. it's clearly remembering some of it.

[Mark Smith]

A recently booted Log for my VM.

[Mark Smith]

my xorg.conf describing how my X11 screens are setup

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.