Gentoo Guest Not Resizing

IceFreak2000 · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 26

OK, I apologise in advance for being a n00b, but I'm completely confused as to why this is happening.

I've installed an instance of Gentoo as a VirtualBox client running under Vista; I've got xorg-server, gnome-light and virtualbox-additions installed - xf86-input-virtualbox and xf86-video-virtualbox were pulled in automatically due to the INPUT_DEVICES and VIDEO_CARDS settings.

The mouse pointer integration is working fine, but auto-resizing guest window size functionality isn't - and I'm absolutely stuck. Can anyone help?

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cwr · Veteran Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 1969

AFAIK the resize capability is a function of the host, not the guest - at least, it
is with Linux hosts. With them you have to install the client (?) software package
to get seamless mouse movements and resizeable windows. I don't know if
Windows is the same.

Will

IceFreak2000 · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 26

I'm fairly certain the problem isn't with my host OS (for once!); I've got an instance of Ubuntu installed using Virtualbox on the same system - resizing and mouse integration works perfectly.

I've got mouse integration working with the Gentoo installation, but resizing isn't working at all.
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IceFreak2000 · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 26

I apologize in advance for bumping this thread, but I've still not managed to resolve this issue; any pointers please?
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engineermdr · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:16 pm Post subject:

I too am having the same problem with version 3.0.2 and earlier versions and would like to know the solution.

engineermdr · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 3:00 am Post subject:

I found I can run