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Setup & Installation / Re: VirtualBox and ArcaOS 5.0.7
« on: January 01, 2022, 09:36:27 pm »
On my machine the guest OS in vbox, running on an AOS host machine with dual-head / SNAP can set the screen size equal to the resolution of the AOS host, i.e. 3820 / 1080. However that screen size is not available on the guest unless the session is started with vboxsdl. If I start the guest session from virtualbox.exe the full resolution of the host screen is not available in the guest.
At least that is the case with a Windows NT guest. Haven't tried with other guest OSs
The other advantage of using vboxsdl is the session usually starts immediately. If I use virtualBox.exe I usually have to wait 15 seconds after virtualBox.exe comes up before I can start a guest.
The downside is you can't just close the guest session window in order to save the session; you need to run vboxmanage.exe to do that. But that is a minor issue to me.
The command file I use to start my WinNT guest machine is
vboxsdl --startvm dc86c149-cf14-42fb-8833-d81172b92f89
The command file I use to suspend my WinNT guest session is
vboxmanage controlvm dc86c149-cf14-42fb-8833-d81172b92f89 savestate
The weird number is the ID of the guest machine. You can alternately use the title of the guest machine
At least that is the case with a Windows NT guest. Haven't tried with other guest OSs
The other advantage of using vboxsdl is the session usually starts immediately. If I use virtualBox.exe I usually have to wait 15 seconds after virtualBox.exe comes up before I can start a guest.
The downside is you can't just close the guest session window in order to save the session; you need to run vboxmanage.exe to do that. But that is a minor issue to me.
The command file I use to start my WinNT guest machine is
vboxsdl --startvm dc86c149-cf14-42fb-8833-d81172b92f89
The command file I use to suspend my WinNT guest session is
vboxmanage controlvm dc86c149-cf14-42fb-8833-d81172b92f89 savestate
The weird number is the ID of the guest machine. You can alternately use the title of the guest machine