cpressland
July 17th, 2009, 03:06 AM
Hey guys,
Long story short, I use Windows 7 for most of my work but my girlfriend prefers Ubuntu, so I decided to setup a Virtual Machine of Ubuntu for her so she could do all her Facebook and Pidgin tasks while not interrupting any of my work flow (don't you just hate it when somebody minimises everything).
So anyway, I used a Net Install image as I like to make sure everything is nice and up-to-date after a clean install, after the install I installed the VirtualBox 'Guest Additions' in terminal the usual way and then doublechecked everything was up-to-date, installed a few apps, etc etc etc.
After a reboot I noticed that the image displayed was garbled, and not the prettiest thing in the world. Now, I'm the first person in the room to protest about how bad X11 is but alas we do what we can with it.
If I resize my VirtualBox Window then the corruption fixes itself, same applies for if I fullscreen it.
I was basically just wondering if anyone had run into anything like this in the past and knew how to fix it, and if not, had any theory's on fixing it. I can clone the VirtualMachine so it's hardly a problem if something goes horribly wrong.
Anyway, See attachment.
Thanks Guys
cpressland
Long story short, I use Windows 7 for most of my work but my girlfriend prefers Ubuntu, so I decided to setup a Virtual Machine of Ubuntu for her so she could do all her Facebook and Pidgin tasks while not interrupting any of my work flow (don't you just hate it when somebody minimises everything).
So anyway, I used a Net Install image as I like to make sure everything is nice and up-to-date after a clean install, after the install I installed the VirtualBox 'Guest Additions' in terminal the usual way and then doublechecked everything was up-to-date, installed a few apps, etc etc etc.
After a reboot I noticed that the image displayed was garbled, and not the prettiest thing in the world. Now, I'm the first person in the room to protest about how bad X11 is but alas we do what we can with it.
If I resize my VirtualBox Window then the corruption fixes itself, same applies for if I fullscreen it.
I was basically just wondering if anyone had run into anything like this in the past and knew how to fix it, and if not, had any theory's on fixing it. I can clone the VirtualMachine so it's hardly a problem if something goes horribly wrong.
Anyway, See attachment.
Thanks Guys
cpressland