On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 03:23, Amit Saha<[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any of you using Arch Linux as a guest OS ? > > Before I ask for help, let me post some networking related experience, > which a new Arch Linux user on VirtualBox may find useful. I found that, > by default Arch Linux has its Ethernet statically configured. This > basically means, that the VirtualBox NAT won't work out of the box. So, > you will have to configure the Ethernet iface to be DHCP enabled, as > instructed in > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Configuring_network#For_DHCP_IP. > After this, I found VBox networking smoothly. > > Now, coming to my query: I have installed the Guest additions, but I > still do not get a "proper" Full-screen. I haven't installed any X or > desktop environment. Its just a console mode Arch Linux installation. Is > that the reason? >
Thats the reason, indeed. Console doesn't provide a full screen mode in VirtualBox, mainly because full screen is a graphical thing and console is non graphical. Cheers _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
