On 30/08/2012 12:30, David Trask wrote: > Smoothest first day of school ever! I have my whole school on Edubuntu > (probably about 75 clients) and I have many applications (web browsers, > the "tux" games, and a few others) all running as localapps...Epoptes is > running very well...I have wake-on-lan working so I can shut down and turn > on machines as needed....life is good. Except for one thing... > > I have a Macbook Pro that I use as my "teaching machine". It is wired and > hooked to my SmartBoard. I have a session in VirtualBox that boots to the > network via PXE and thus acts as a thin-client. Since the thin-client is > "also" on the Mac...my SmartBoard software running on the Mac will also > control the thin-client in VirtualBox....again....life is good. > HOWEVER...since the thin-client is running in a VM I can only get 1024x768 > resolution unless I do something like install VirtualBox Guest Additions. > My question is....is there anyway I can force the resolutiuon for the > thin-client running in Virtualbox either via lts.conf...or is there a way > to install the VirtualBox Guest additions so I can get a more acceptable > resolution like 1440x900? Any ideas welcome.
I think I've done this once before. You need to download the guest additions iso from the Virtualbox site, install "build-essential" in your ltsp chroot (check that you have /proc and /dev mounted) and then run the installation script that's provided on the iso. Thin client chroots should then be able to boot fine as vbox guests. Tip: make a backup of your chroot before making changes and remember to unmount proc, dev and the iso before doing ltsp-update-image -Jonathan -- edubuntu-users mailing list edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
