Re-opening. This is most certainly *not* fixed. I have a Debian Sid installation (with a Gnome environment) in a VBox VM, fully up-to-date, and the problem still exists with this.
When the problem surfaced, I had to restore from backup and place a hold on kernel and virtualbox-guest-* package updates to keep the VM usable (but insecure), while maintaining a duplicate copy that I install the updates on to test if each new version fixes it, wasting a chunk of my disk space. This has not been at all ideal. AS I said, I've just double checked things, and the problem is definitely still there. Frustratingly, when I looked at the VBox bug tracker some weeks ago, others were in the same position; VBox guys were just asking if those users were using wayland, and stating that the resizing simply does not work for wayland, contradicting the simple fact that it clearly was working fine up until the point release that broke it as people tried to point out. There was also some suggestion of an environment variable being involved, and possibly not used correctly by some distros, if I recall correctly. I have not been holding my breath for a quick fix. Interestingly I have just discovered something useful - I tried selecting 'gnome on xorg' at the login screen, and was pleased to find that the login environment under that at least works fine. I guess this must have been one of the later fixes and I did not previously think to recheck. So the problem only affects the default (wayland) environment. This eases some of the impact upon myself - I guess I can manage with an X11 environment for the time being. Fundamentally though, the problem is only partially fixed, it's still broken for wayland, which *was* working previously, despite the illogical claims of VBox guys. And thus since the problem partially still exists, the bug should remain open - the small login screen is mostly just cosmetic in nature, but not being able to have a usable wayland session is problematic. On Tue, 2020-09-15 at 08:09 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the src:virtualbox package: > > #963827: [virtualbox] guests limited to 800x600 > > It has been closed by Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org > >. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Gianfranco > Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> by > replying to this email. > >
