[PC-BSD Testing] Overcoming VirtualBox's Miniature Screen Size in PCBSD VM

[Eugeniy Khvastunov]

I had the same situation with the onset of 7 version. Had to add in
xorg.conf in the Section "Monitor" :
    HorizSync 30-82
    VertRefresh 50-75

2009/12/23 Ian Robinson <fitchkendall at gmail.com>:
> Re:  Overcoming VirtualBox's Miniature Screen Size in PCBSD VM.
>
> About ten days ago Ian Robinson asked:
>
>> Here is a question about VirtualBox and its resolution. Since FreeBSD does
>> >not have a guest additions module, you are limited to using
>>either a vesa driver or a VirtualBox Graphics Adapter from Innotek "fbdev."
>>
>> Generally, the higher the screen resolution, the larger the screen display
>> (i.e., 1024x768 results in a bigger screen than 800x600).
>>Both seem to be limited to a max of 1024x768.
>>However, here is the rub -- Kris' PCBSD video driver routine
>>used to configure X during the 1st reboot produces an even larger
>> VirtualBox
>> Screen than 1024x768.? How does Kris do this? What driver, what settings?
>
> Kris Moore replied.
>
> Magic!!
>
> Actually I'm pretty sure its just the vesa driver, and it sets some monitor
> values to try and force xorg to run in a higher res. If you play with it,
> check /etc/X11/xorg.conf afterwards and you can get examples of
> what its doing. Or when the XGUI comes up, right click, bring up xterm,
> and look at the /etc/X11/xorg.conf there to see what its doing as well.
>
> --
> Kris Moore
> PC-BSD Software
>
> ===============================================
> 1.  Analysis:  Kris' video configuration routine boots using
> /root/xorg.conf.new.  The resulting configuration file is stored in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  The biggest difference between the two is that Kris
> uses a depth of 16 instead of 24.  Consequently, the "depth" variable plays
> a critical role in the resulting size of the PCBSD virtual machine.
>
> 2.  Thanks to a post found at:
>
> http://www.h-i-r.net/2009/11/virtualbox-full-screen-resolution-for.html
>
> There, the author discusses his technique for enlarging the VirtualBox
> window, and I followed most of his advice and most of his settings.
> However,
> to get my Virtualbox screen to adapt to a new size, I never had to invoke
> the command line:
>
> VBoxManage setextradata [VM-name] CustomVideoMode1 [WxHxBPP]
>
> 3.  What I did is combine the PCBSD xorg.conf and the author's xorg.conf.
> For example, one of the obvious differences is that PCBSD keeps its font
> libraries in a different location than the author's system.  Here is the
> complete configuration I ended up with (and which you can copy into a text
> editor & save as xorg.conf) to get a Virtualbox display covering about 7/8
> of my screen:
>
>
> # Xorg.conf file generated for PC-BSD
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
>     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>     InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>     Option       "Clone" "off"
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
>         Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
>         Option "AllowEmptyInput" "Off"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>     ModulePath      "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
>     FontPath        "/Programs/fonts/"
>     FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
>     FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
>     FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/"
>     FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>     FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
>     FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>     FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
>     FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
>     FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
>     FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu/"
>     FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>     Load           "dbe"
>     Load           "dri"
>     Load           "ddc"
>     Load           "extmod"
>     Load           "glx"
>     Load           "xtrap"
>     Load           "freetype"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier     "Keyboard0"
>     Driver         "keyboard"
>     Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
>     Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
>     Option         "XkbVariant" ""
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier     "Mouse0"
>     Driver         "mouse"
>     Option         "Protocol" "auto"
>     Option         "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>     Option         "Buttons" "6"
>     Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>     Option         "Emulate3Buttons"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier     "Monitor0"
>     HorizSync      31-80
>     VertRefresh    30-100
>     VendorName     "Monitor Vendor"
>     ModelName      "Monitor Model"
> EndSection
>
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier      "Card0"
>     Screen           0
>     Driver         "vesa"
>     VendorName     "Generic Vesa Driver"
>     BusID      "PCI:0:2:0"
> EndSection
>
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier     "Screen0"
>     Device         "Card0"
>     Monitor        "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth   16
>     SubSection     "Display"
>         Viewport   0 0
>         Depth      16
>         Modes      "1280x800"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
>
> REMEMBER -- Back up your virtual machine's existing xorg.conf.
> REMEMBER -- You will have to have root privileges to save this new file in
> (or in place of)  /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
>
> Ian Robinson
> Salem, Ohio
>
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