If I have 'auto-resize guest display' checked, it no longer seems to actually resize the guest display size. I can resize the display from within the guest, that works fine. I had a Ubuntu 20.04 virtual box where I had not updated the guest additions, and the resize worked fine until I applied the new guest additions. I think that this happened during the update to 5.2.44, but I am using poudriere to build my packages and have not tried rolling back an individual port yet.
I should mention that if I use the menu to attempt a resize via... View -> Virtual Screen 1 -> Resize to ... it does not work, but that menu does reflect the size I see if I change the size within the guest.
The above issues are with Ubuntu guests (18.04 and 20.04). I tried a FreeBSD 12.1 guest and the resize worked properly, using the virtualbox-ose-additions-5.2.44 package. The Ubuntu guests had the guest additions installed via the virtual CDROM.
> emulators/virtualbox-ose – should probably be: > emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions Is the issue reproducible with 6.1.22 or greater? For the affected guests, which video driver is set?
I see this issue with FreeBSD 13 guests and the latest GhostBSD. Resize was generally working a few months ago, except for guests running Lumina Desktop, which has some redraw bugs.
Just remembered an old related issue with VMSVGA. Switching from the default VMSVGA to VboxSVGA fixes this issue at least for GhostBSD. I wonder if the port should be tweaked to default to VboxSVGA by default?
(In reply to Jason W. Bacon from comment #5, November 2021) > … I wonder if the port should be tweaked to default to VboxSVGA by default? Package messages were improved in October 2021: <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/352af02b389202ac426ecf026ac65bff7c61bd41> Users of quarterly might have not seen those improvements until January 2022. Since then, I sense that most end users (and many people in support roles) are tuned in to what's required for desktop environment use cases.