Summary: | app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions: VBoxClient --vmsvga should be run as root | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | jannis <kripton> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Viorel Munteanu <ceamac> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | mg.gbz, NathanZachary |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8408964.html | ||
See Also: | https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726846 | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 705720 |
Description
jannis
2020-01-19 12:44:17 UTC
jannis, thanks for your work! Where do you run the proposed script? I've the same problem and wanna use it. Do you add the script in init.d? (In reply to Vyacheslav from comment #1) > Where do you run the proposed script? I've the same problem and wanna use it. > Do you add the script in init.d? Thanks Vyachselav. Me as an OpenRC-user created a *.start-script inside /etc/local.d: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/local.d (In reply to jannis from comment #2) > Thanks Vyachselav. Me as an OpenRC-user created a *.start-script inside > /etc/local.d: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/local.d Thx! And second question. Do you have bidirectional clipboard in VB 6.1? I can't do it for Gentoo guest on Gentoo host. Fortunately, shared directories work. After upgrade virtualbox-guest-additions from 6.1.4 to 6.1.6 I can use bidirectional clipboard. But for resize, I should turn off and turn on it by hands in menu :) In 6.1.4, your script worked very good without additional manipulation. /Copying relevant info from bug 707082, comment 29/ I just tried VBox Additions v6.1.8 (not yet available in portage; take plain 6.1.6 from portage, apply Alex Parker patch from attachment 637204 [details, diff] from bug 707082 to make it compile with kernel 5.6, save as 6.1.8) + VBox 6.1.8 on a Win10 host and the autoresize finally started working as expected. And in 6.1.8 it works for me even *without* the "VBoxClient --vmsvga as root" hack. Seems like "--vmsvga-x11 as user" is sufficient to make it work. (I'm using KDE on X11 if that matters.) The "disable and enable again in the menu" hack is also not needed any more. (I also had to do it that way when using 6.1.6 and maybe earlier.) So, it seems like upgrade to 6.1.8 may be enough to fix the autoresize issues on VMSVGA adapter :) Is this bug still relevant with current versions? As far as I remember, I disabled my workaround and it's still working, so I'm closing this. Thanks for the follow-up. Thank you for the update and for closing it! |