﻿id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host
41,GuestAdditions for Linux - breaks graphics - quadruples resolution in X,Technologov,,"Testbeds (Hosts):

Software1: Windows XP Pro SP2 Eng, no extra patches, VirtualBox 1.3.4 Full.

Software2: Windows XP Pro SP2 Eng, no extra patches, VirtualBox 1.3.2 Full.

Software3: openSUSE 10.2, VirtualBox 1.3.4 Full.

Software4: openSUSE 10.2, VirtualBox 1.3.2 Full.

Guest OSes: openSUSE 10.2 and SUSE Linux 10.0

Those VMs run fine before I install guest additions. LinuxAdditions breaks them totally.
More specifically, it quadruples the X-server resolution to something huge like 2000x2000 or more... making it impossible to navigate such systems.


Steps to reproduce:

Install GuestAdditions for Linux on the guest OSes specified above and restart.

Before you suicide I recommend:

a) backup your guest OS VDI image

b) setup /etc/inittab to start with runlevel 3 (so your system will be navigatable without X)

Bad Workaround: kill X server (init 3), setup /etc/inittab to start with runlevel 3, reconfigure X-server to normal resolution (800x600x16-bit) (with sax2), restart X server (init 5).

Question:
How to switch to a different tty when working under Linux with X on both host and guest?
as ""ctrl+alt+F1"" combo switches the host, not the guest.

-Alexey Eremenko
",defect,closed,other,VirtualBox 1.3.4,fixed,,,other,other
