2

Without VirtualBox guest additions installed, the only screen resolution is 640x480:

$ xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 640 x 480, maximum 640 x 480
default connected primary 640x480+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   640x480       73.00*

How can the resolution be set to 1280x1024, for example? No VirtualBox guest additions should be necessary.

The guest is a Fedora system.

I've tried adding an Xorg config file as described by this Whonix article, which did exactly nothing.

Using cvt to get a new modeline for xrandr does not seem to work either:

$ cvt 1280 1024
# 1280x1024 59.89 Hz (CVT 1.31M4) hsync: 63.67 kHz; pclk: 109.00 MHz
Modeline "1280x1024_60.00"  109.00  1280 1368 1496 1712  1024 1027 1034 1063 -hsync +vsync
$ xrandr --newmode "1280x1024_60.00"  109.00  1280 1368 1496 1712  1024 1027 1034 1063 -hsync +vsync
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
$ xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 640 x 480, maximum 640 x 480
default connected primary 640x480+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   640x480       73.00* 
  1280x1024_60.00 (0x1bd) 109.000MHz
        h: width  1280 start 1368 end 1496 total 1712 skew    0 clock  63.67KHz
        v: height 1024 start 1027 end 1034 total 1063           clock  59.89Hz
$ xrandr --addmode default 1280x1024_60.00
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
$ xrandr --output default --mode 1280x1024_60.00
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed
Improve this question
3
  • I am not in front of a VB installation but as far as I recall, you need to install the DKMS module from the Guest Additions if you want higher screen resolution.
    – fpmurphy
    Mar 15, 2015 at 17:57
  • I wrote that I don't want guest additions.
    – basic6
    Mar 15, 2015 at 18:33
  • Not possible to do without guest additions.
    – fpmurphy
    Apr 4, 2015 at 11:08

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
2

1) Stop XOrg 

 stop REPLACEWITHNAMEOFXORGSERVICE

2) Open console 

CTRL-ALT-F1

3) Create default xorg.conf, it not exists 

X -configure

4) Move xorg.conf.new so system uses config file 

mv xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

5) Reboot 

reboot

6) Modify xorg.conf, add

Section "Monitor"
...
 HorizSync 1.0 - 1000.0
 VertRefresh 1.0 - 1000.0
 Option "MinClock" "1.0"
 Option "MaxClock" "10000.0"
 Option "Primary" "True"
 Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
...
EndSection

7) Reboot

reboot

8) System Settings > Display > "Select Any -4:3- Resolution"

9) Enable widescreen 

Host:VBoxManage setextradata "YOURGUEST" "CustomVideoMode1" "1920x1080x32"
Improve this answer

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .