dual monitor linux guest in virtualbox

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I read that the newer VirtualBox supports Linux guests with dual monitors. I'm able to get two monitors to start when I start my Arch VM, but I cannot get Xorg to span to the 2nd monitor. They constantly display in clone mode. Has anyone successfully done this? If so, could you share your xorg.conf?

Edit: my xorg.conf (I tried incremental BusID as a test, but had them the same before).

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "dri2"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor1"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Screen      0
        Driver      "vboxvideo"
        BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card1"
        Screen      1
        Driver      "vboxvideo"
        BusID       "PCI:0:2:1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen1"
        Device     "Card1"
        Monitor    "Monitor1"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Kyle Smith

Posted 2011-05-18T14:38:49.830

Reputation: 211

1Update: I can make this work from Xrandr, so it must be a configuration error. I made it work using xrandr --output VBOX1 --right-of VBOX0 – Kyle Smith – 2011-05-18T22:08:35.587

possible duplicate of How can I get VirtualBox to play nicely with dual monitors?

– Journeyman Geek – 2012-05-30T23:56:26.473

i know this is old post, but this one did the trick for me xrandr --output VBOX1 --right-of VBOX0 thanx – benzebuth – 2012-12-12T08:26:28.520

Answers

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I use randr as a workaround

xrandr --output VBOX1 --right-of VBOX0

I put it in my autostart. It will be run after you login

Adrian Gunawan

Posted 2011-05-18T14:38:49.830

Reputation: 171

2

Whats in your conf file? If you haven't explicitly told it that you have multiple monitors it will just clone the output. If you're uncertain how to modify the conf to do this there are several good tutorials around such as the one at the xorg archwiki.

Blomkvist

Posted 2011-05-18T14:38:49.830

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