Hi, thanks, so I assume I can also do that via IDisplay::setVideoModeHint(), I'll try that out, it would be an interesting alternative to using multiple monitors.
2014-09-18 22:23 GMT+03:00 Vitali Pelenjow <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > it is possible to add arbitrary custom resolutions using the > vboxcontrol.exe (from the guest additions): > vboxcontrol addcustommode <width> <height> <bpp> > This mode will then be available in the "Adjust Resolution" dialog. > > Also you could try to set an arbitrary high resolution mode either from > the guest: > vboxcontrol setvideomode <width> <height> <bpp> <screen> > where screen = 0 is the primary display. > Or from the host using the VBoxManage controlvm setvideomodehint command. > > Vitali > > Rūdolfs Bundulis wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> another question on IFramebuffer and monitors, yesterday while playing >> around with my headless implementation I saw that a guest Windows 7 >> actually offers resolutions up to 6400x1200 (I hope I remember correctly) >> in the "Adjust Resolution" dialog, I assume that comes from the fact that I >> always return supported as true in IFramebuffer::videoModeSupported (I >> didn't actually check if resize to this mode would happen). This is also >> quite interesting since then that would actually give me a way of having a >> high resolution surface that I could internally split into 1920 x something >> tiles. But at least from what I saw it looked like only the width was >> large, not the height, I would have expected a 6400 x something (something >> being in 16:9 or 4:3 proportion), can anyone advise me on are these modes >> actually working and can I get a high 16:9/4:3 resolution mode? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vbox-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev >> > >
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