Solved -- No full screen mode for linux distros

[Xenaflux]

OK, I am going to give it another try.
I'm not giving up.......just getting tired between the shoulder blades, if you know the feeling.

OK, I will contact you again when it's done.....and some more

Thanks a million for the effort you put in

nb:    even downloaded vbox 4.02, but found out....you know what  

Xena

>>>>>>>>As it's a VM, I only have a swap and / partition. As shown below the / partition is formatted ext4.<<<<<<<

No, I wanted to know if the partition you installed it ON was ext4 or ext3. ( your partition you installed your every days working OS on) Sorry, I was not clear
Went on the net and as far as my dumb brain understands, there are differences
Also, there seem to be differences between SATA and IDE drives

[Old-Polack]

OK, I am going to give it another try.
I'm not giving up.......just getting tired between the shoulder blades, if you know the feeling.

OK, I will contact you again when it's done.....and some more

Thanks a million for the effort you put in

nb:    even downloaded vbox 4.02, but found out....you know what  

Xena

>>>>>>>>As it's a VM, I only have a swap and / partition. As shown below the / partition is formatted ext4.<<<<<<<

No, I wanted to know if the partition you installed it ON was ext4 or ext3. ( your partition you installed your every days working OS on) Sorry, I was not clear
Went on the net and as far as my dumb brain understands, there are differences
Also, there seem to be differences between SATA and IDE drives

All my 2010 / partitions are ext4. My older 2007 - 2009 KDE3 installations are on ext3 / partitions, as are my data partitions. I have a mix of IDE/PATA and SATA drives, and it doesn't seem to make any difference, as long as the kernel involved has a module for each of the drive controller types.

[Xenaflux]

OP, just hang in there, unless you want to go to bed

This is just a temporary mail
In one of my kde4 vms, when I login as root , I get full screen As a user, I get not.
In xfce, when I log in as root , I don't get full screen

But please, don't reply yet.
I am just going to try to figure which one does what, as I have 4 vms and 2 are on different partitions

I don't want to talk , you know what, if I can avoid it.

So, wait for next posting and give me some time. I am getting nervous !

[menotu]

@menotu

Xenaflux said

I have a problem with getting Full screen mode with my Vb-pclos images

=> I don't think the .exe is useful, or is it?

I'd take the one with .sh extension (copy, make executable, run it)

Xena had mentioned running Windows XP which is why I obviously pointed to that file!!

[Xenaflux]

OK...
Short and sweet......it works
Let me explain
After above posting, I went back to what I had done, to make sure....
I had actually 5 installs in 2 different paths
First
/mnt/image/Virtualbox/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/.......a few VDIs
Vms in this path gave me no full screen , either as user, nor as root

Except : Winxp.....no problem

Second
/mnt/image/Vbox.......a few VDIs
VMs in this path gave me no full screen as user, but they gave me full screen as root ?  ?  ?

Hmmm.........didn't know what to think...

So, I decided ( before the big Wipe ) to install in the /home/xena/.virtualbox folder.
I had to make space for this as my home folder was fairly full
When I clicked on the VBoxLinuxAddition.run file to run as root, a windows popped up telling me
that it wasn't happy because it found files which didn't belong there and if I wanted to continue
I said yes...... and I cut it short....after a reboot it worked

So, what have I been doing before.  What was so different ?
Well , every time in previous installs, when I wanted to run VBoxLinuxAdditions.run a window popped up
asking me for a password. I gave the password, then there was a second of activity, and then nothing.....I waited a while, and because nothing further happened, I was convinced that ...that was it.
More over, because when I clicked full screen in some installs, it really went to what was a full screen, but the actual screen of the distro stayed small.
So, I was convinced that addition were installed ( as the screen went big )

So, I executed VBoxLinuxAdditions.run as root again.....wait....wait....ask me for my password.....
wait....wait....wait....wait....waited 3 minutes. Nothing happened.
So, I decided to run 'autorun.sh' as root
Click, password, ....wait...wait...wait....Ah...there it goes
But I had to wait for about 2 minutes ( as in 120 seconds ).That was the Full Monty
A normal user certainly would have moved on already

Anyway...after a reboot it worked

I went to all other installs which didn't work before and it was the same story.
Wait at least 1 full minute ( as in 60 seconds ) , sometimes longer.

In short....running VBoxLinuxAdditions.run as root never worked.....but autorun.sh did.

Now, I had seen autorun.sh before, and I guess I knew what it was, but for a reason totally beyond my understanding, I never used it..till now.

I have checked all VMs, except the kiddies one (  as there is a Keyboard problem )

So, thanks to all and specially OP.

There still is something wrong, but we will see about that later.
The change over from Full to narmal to Full is everything but smooth.
But I can live with that...for now

Again, my thanks
I owe you one

Now it's bedtime. Have spend over 12 hours on this.....

Xena

[rubentje1991]

Great it eventually worked..... - stored in the brains for the future