Opened 9 years ago
#15676 new defect
Cannot open guest in full screen mode when autostart is enabled on any VM
| Reported by: | DigitalBoffin | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | GUI | Version: | VirtualBox 5.1.2 |
| Keywords: | full screeen, autostart resolution | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | all | Host type: | Mac OS X |
Description
I have multiple guest VMs of varying operating systems. Right now, I have two that I use continuously:
- Headless FreeBSD 10-3 (--autostart-enabled=on; --autostart-delay=30)
- Windows 10 Pro x64 (--autostart-enabled=off)
If I boot my OS X host, the FreeBSD VM launches with no problems. However, when I manually launch my Windows 10 VM and attempt to bring it full screen (2560x1440) it fails and only gives me a partial full screen (2560x1324).
If I turn off autostart VBoxManage modifyvm $vmname --autostart-enabled=off the problem goes away completely. Full screen, on the Windows 10 VM works properly with no issues. I have attempted to change the delay value from 10 seconds to 5 minutes to see if the running VM was causing the problem. Regardless of the delay, when --autostart=on , full screen fails.
This happens on all guests. In fact, full screen fails that the Virtual Box splash screen prior to the booting of the OS. Even if no OS is loaded, I was able to reproduce the full screen failure, so I have ruled out a guest additions issue.
I am running OS X 10.11.6 and VBox 5.0.26r108824, but this has been happening since Mavericks 10.9.x and every version of VB since 5.0 release. All upgrades of OS x has been via format of the drive and restoration of data only. VM's are not backed up using Time Machine, rather they are exported/imported as appliances.
VBox Log for Guest VM showing success/failure of full screen when autostart is enabled/disabled