Virtual Box Guest additions

[saravanan]

Hi all,
          I need to install BirtualBox OSE guest additions in TinyCore for VirtualBox OSE.
Is it possible to have the seamless mouse pointer integration with the Windows host and TC guest with VirtualBox Guest additions/addons ??
has any one tried this before.
Please guide me.

[Kingdomcome]

Have you tried the VBox-OSE-additions-x11 extension?

[saravanan]

Have you tried the VBox-OSE-additions-x11 extension?

I installed VBox-OSE-additions-x11 extension and restarted, next time boot process stops in Command line, X dos not work.
when i try to start X, through startx command; following error is shown

/usr/local/bin/Xorg: error while loading shared libraries: libpixman-1.so.0: can not open shared object file or directory.

[Juanito]

This means you need to load the pixman extension

[saravanan]

This means you need to load the pixman extension

thanks juanito, i installed pixman now, but now the same error for missing libssl, which needs ?? how to solve this dependency problem?

[gerald_clark]

Make sure you are running the current version of TC.

[Juanito]

It looks to me like if you're using the latest version of tc and you load VBox-OSE via the appbrowser then the deps should be loaded as well?

[Kingdomcome]

Just tested in a clean VM and TC 2.11.  all deps are downloaded and X starts with "startx" after DL.  There is a small issue with the additions extension which I have described and given a workaround for here: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=1174.msg32247#msg32247

[saravanan]

dear all,

thanks, i got that working on 2.11

How do i change the resolution in Xorg?

in case of Xvesa before i jus changed the resolution value in .xsession file.
But now i am little confused with xorg.conf

[maro]

IIRC you could try the xrandr command (included in 'Xorg-7.4.tcz').

[bmarkus]

IIRC you could try the xrandr command (included in 'Xorg-7.4.tcz').

You can try also

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/tcz/lxrandr.tcz.info

which is in the repo.

[Juanito]

You need a section something like

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Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device     "Card0"
Monitor    "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     24
Modes     "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

..but google is your friend

[Kingdomcome]

If you are still running inside VirtualBox, then after you start the VBoxClient apps you can simple resize the VM window and the xorg resolution will be changed to fill the window.   If you are no longer running inside VirtualBox, then you should start a new topic to not confuse others.

[saravanan]

Thanks juanito i could change the resolution
i am still working inside virtual box,

How can i make the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to be persistent?
when i unpack the Xorg.7.4.tcz , i could find the xorg.conf.vesa but not just xorg.conf.

could any one please tell how will the xorg.conf file be created in filesystem from the Xorg.tcz contents?

[Juanito]

How can i make the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to be persistent?

add etc/X11/xorg.conf to /opt/.filetool.lst and set up backup/restore from the panel

when i unpack the Xorg.7.4.tcz , i could find the xorg.conf.vesa but not just xorg.conf.

could any one please tell how will the xorg.conf file be created in filesystem from the Xorg.tcz contents?

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$ sudo cp /tmp/tcloop/Xorg-7.4/etc/X11/xorg.conf.vesa /etc/X11/xorg.conf