On 06/24/13 05:37, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I wonder if any of you have managed to install Fedora 19 beta in Virtualbox. > > I did, and all was working well... until I installed the Guest Additions trying to get better performance, and I ended up runing my VM, now I get scrambled video. > > I wonder if anyone else has tested F19 (32bit) on Virtualbox guest > > Moving forward, what would be the official rescue procedure to force a Linux OS into a "safe" video mode (say, 800x600 SVGA framebuffer)?. > > My trouble setup includes F19 Linux as Virtualbox guest (32 bit F19 beta), Win7 SP1 64bit host, AMD-V enabled. > > Here's what I get after installing the guest additions... > > Screenshots: > http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/6610/rsmt.png > http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/3827/0wp2.png > > In the OS/2 world, things were easy: ctrl-alt-f1, and from the pre-boot menu, selecting V for "Boot to VGA mode" > > In the Linux world,however,developers think that making things more complicated is actually "progress", hence the involution from grub1 bootargs to this grub2 insanity... > > http://www.intdblog.com/2009/09/grub-2-graphical-boot-tips-to-set.html > > Any step by step guide for old geeks with ADD? ;) > > First of all I'd like to know if I'm the only one to experience this, and second, any ideas as to how to fix it... > > Thanks in advance. Running both F19/32 and F19/64 (latest builds) with Guest Additions installed. Host, however, is F18/64. -- The only thing worse than a poorly asked question is a cryptic answer. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test