As a workaround you can increase the resolution on the console, take a look here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=49892
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Antonio Augusto (Mancha) < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- -- "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." Sir Arthur C. Clarke
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