[Live-demo] FOSS4G Workshop

[Angelos Tzotsos]

For me all VMs (8 and previous) are 800x600, only the live session seems 
to pick up larger screen size.
I am not 100% sure that some ubuntu vbox driver was not slipped in there 
at some point, but that would be a bug actually :)


On 08/30/2014 02:35 PM, Daniel Kastl wrote:
> Thanks, Angelos!
> As I said, I didn't remember details of previous releases. I just thought
> that when I started the VM in previous versions, then the initial screen
> was larger, so probably I didn't install the Guest Additions at all. Do you
> think the change to Lubuntu could be the reason?
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>   Hi Daniel,
>>
>> We never install any additions to the VM to avoid conflicts between
>> Hypervisors.
>> What we do is install the kernel headers to support building kernel
>> modules.
>>
>> So in order to support VBox it would be needed to add the vbox kernel
>> module and then deploy the VM to the workshop machines.
>>
>> Best,
>> Angelos
>>
>>
>>
>> On 08/30/2014 01:30 PM, Daniel Kastl wrote:
>>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> I just wanted to give you some update regarding (my) workshop(s) using
>> OSGeo Live. I have just tested the final release of OSGeo Live, using the
>> Virtual Machine image: http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html
>>
>> I guess, the Virtual Machine image will be the one installed on the
>> workshop PC's, right? I think it's the best choice, but I found out, that
>> the initial screen resolution is just 800x600 as far as I remember. It
>> would be necessary to install the Virtual Box Guest Additions, which seem
>> not to be installed by default. I thought it was the case in previous
>> releases, but that might be wrong.
>>
>> With 800x600 px screen resolution it's pretty hard to work. Do you think it
>> will be possible to have the Virtual Box Guest Additions installed on the
>> workshop PC's?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> --
>> Angelos Tzotsos
>> Remote Sensing Laboratory
>> National Technical University of Athenshttp://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>>
>>
>


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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos