Small FreeBSD window size in VirtualBox

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Alien

Hello FreeBSD community.

I installed FreeBSD 9.1 on a MacBook Pro '15 late 2011 in VirtualBox. Installation was quick and fine, the new installer is great!

Just the window size of FreeBSD stays very small even if I change the virtual machine window size to fullscreen.

So what did I have to do to enlarge that window?

Thanks.
 
Did you install the VirtualBox Guest Additions in the guest OS? I had this issue and had to run the guest addition installer inside the guest OS to correct it.
 
When the FreeBSD VM is running a text console, use "Scale Mode" in VirtualBox. On the VM window menus, View/Switch to Scale Mode. Or press right-ctrl-C. Then resize the window.
 
Yes I installed the guest additions. If I:

Code: 
startx

the window size changes and everything is fine. Just if use the text console it stays small.

The scale mode looks awful so thats not an option for me.
 
The reason the console is small is because it's shown dot-for-dot. A real console would only be 640x480, or whatever standard VESA mode is used. Scaling works okay if you have a high resolution X screen. It actually looks better than I would expect. This is the same thing as showing a 1024x768 image on a 1280x1024 monitor.

One other possibility is to ignore the VM window or run the VM headless and connect to it with ssh(1).
 
I played around now with some window managers / desktop environments and I can use the terminal very well there.

Thanks.
 
I installed a second FreeBSD virtual machine in VirtualBox. I am not able to switch to fullscreen in X now. I read some articles about that and all said that I need to put the following into my xorg.conf.

Code: 
Section "Screen"
        DefaultDepth 24
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport    0 0
		Depth       24
                Modes       "1440x900"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

I have it inside but I don't get 1440x900. I think it switches to 1024x768.

Is /etc/X11/xorg.conf the correct path? I think my machine don't read that file there, whatever I change.
 
What do you mean with more correct?

I already installed the guest additions but something went wrong while building it.

I installed it again and its working fine now.
 
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