GhostBSD Window Size on VirtualBox

[mushroom]

Hi all,
I'm having trouble getting GhostBSD's guest window to reboot into a set resolution (1400x1050). Each time I reboot, it reverts to 800x600.

Here's the situation:
Host system: Windows 10
Guest: GhostBSD with VB settings:

• 4096 mb base RAM
• 128 mb video RAM
• Graphics Controller: VBoxSVGA (this actually results in an error message from VB, but leaving it at the default yields a max. resolution of 1024x768)

I've also installed (on the GhostBSD guest):

• virtualbox-ose-additions-5.2.44_3
• virtualbox-ose-kmod-5.2.44_4

Lastly, there's a typo in one of the base files inherited from FreeBSD — (/usr/local/bin/VBoxClient-all[/code)
This line:

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/usr/bin/VBoxClient/ --vmsvga-xll

Should be:

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/usr/local/bin/VBoxClient/ --vmsvga-x11

The procedure I used (taken from this thread on the VirtualBox forum):

• run VBoxManage setextradata "GhostBSD" "GUI/LastGuestSizeHint"
• started the GhostBSD guest
• set the resolution to 1400x1050
• shutdown the GhostBSD VM
  At this point, issuing the VBoxManage command:
  VBoxManage getextradata "GhostBSD" "GUI/LastGuestSizeHint"
  reports:
  Value: 1400, 1050
  I then boot up the GhostBSD VM. It does open a 1400x1050 window, but before the boot process is finished, it reverts to 800x600. Checking with VBoxManage again shows the resolution value has changed back:
  Value: 800, 600
  
  Can anyone suggest something I've missed?

[ericbsd]

Did you try http://download.us.ghostbsd.org/releases/amd64/latest/ we fixed a couple of problems with VirtualBox?

[mushroom]

Did you try http://download.us.ghostbsd.org/releases/amd64/latest/ we fixed a couple of problems with VirtualBox?

Nope. I missed that. I'll check it out.
Thanks!

[mushroom]

Did you try http://download.us.ghostbsd.org/releases/amd64/latest/ we fixed a couple of problems with VirtualBox?

Alas. No change.
Which Graphics Controller should I be using in Settings > Display? Not that I haven't tried them all, but nailing this down will at least reduce the variables I'm juggling.

[mushroom]

According to a person on the VB forum:

The current VMSVGA (Linux guests) and VBoxSVGA (Windows guests) came out with VirtualBox 6.0, so using either of these is not supported with VirtualBox Guest Additions < 6.0.

So that answers my last question. I'm wasting far too much time on this, so if I can't solve this soon, I may have to just roll back to VM 5.

[grahamperrin]

… Which Graphics Controller should I be using in Settings > Display? …

With emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions 6.1.18: VBoxSVGA.

If the version of guest additions is significantly inferior to the version of VirtualBox on the host (i.e. 5.2.44_3 with 6.1.18 or 6.1.20): I don't know.

6.1.18 additions installed (from ports) … good for window size but (for me) not yet for mouse integration.

[grahamperrin]

… 6.1.18 additions installed (from ports) … good for window size but (for me) not yet for mouse integration.

I abandoned the installation above, which was based on 12-RELEASE.

Expect things to be fine with 13-RELEASE