[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster Oct 2020; max resolution 800x600 as guest in virtualbox 6.1.16 (windows host)

[Michael Huff]

Hi, and thanks for your help

I have an Openindiana guest in virtualbox that is stuck at a resolution 
of 800x600, regardless of any steps I take.

I have added a higher mode for the VM on the command-line: C:\Program 
Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe setextradata OI-2021 
CustomVideoMode1 1920x1080x16

I have installed the guest additions from the repository:  sudo pkg 
install -v pkg:/system/virtualbox/virtualbox-additions

I have tried forcing it manually using the "displays" widget in MATE 
(preferences -> system ->displays). When I select "1920x1080" and hit 
"apply" it appears to freeze until I hit the red "X". It doesn't 
completely freeze (I can pull down the list of displays and pull it 
out), it just seems to simply never finish the "apply" operation.

On the GUI for the VM itself, it seems to see the different modes 
available. The modes under View -> "Virtual Screen 1" are not greyed 
out, but they don't change when I click them.

It seems that things are working on the virtualbox end (the guest 
additions communicate well enough to tell the GUI that those modes are 
available), but not on the hipster end.

This is a new VM, which I've updated using "pkg update".

This is the only OS I've had this problem on (usually I can brute force 
a 1920x1080 resolution by adding a custom xorg.conf and using 
VBoxManage), any help or insight would be appreciated

Thank you!