Opened 5 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#19753 new defect
Guest Additions 6.1.12 don't support screen autosizing anymore on Windows 7 guests
| Reported by: | jfmorin | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | guest additions | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Windows |
Description
After upgrading VirtualBox to version 6.1.12, I upgraded Guest Additions (GA) on my virtual machines (VMs), all Windows 10 guests except one, which is Windows 7. I use screen autosizing to get full-screen display on all my VMs.
The upgrade worked properly for all Windows 10 VMs. However, after upgrading GA to version 6.1.12 on the Windows 7 guest, I ran into repeated blue screens. After changing the graphics driver to VBoxSVGA, I could properly start the VM again, but I couldn't get the screen to autosize anymore.
Actually, the behaviour I observed looks like GA are not working at all anymore on Windows 7 guests.
The only way I could get back this feature (and GA to work properly) was to rollback GA to version 6.1.10.
Bottom line: This looks like a compatibility issue between Guest Additions 6.1.12 and Windows 7 hosts.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 5 years ago
comment:2 by , 5 years ago
I think there's a typo in what I typed above: I experienced the issue on a Windows 7 guest (host is Windows 10).
Hi, I have the same issue on W10.