Vertica Community Edition Experience in Oracle Virtual Box
manoj_dixit
Community Edition User
Hello,
Very much excited to practise using Vertica Community Edition. However, when imported into an Oracle VM environment, I don't feel the UI experience (not of Vertica console) is that great. I mean each time I need to use the host key to move the cursor out of the VM. Also, I am not able to maximise window as per the display / monitor size.
Any ideas how to resolve, please?
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Manoj.
Best Answer
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s_crossman
Vertica Employee Employee
Hi Manoj,
These are both behaviours of Oracle VirtualBox, not the Vertica instance. Below are a couple links that may help you. The first discusses the full screen mode and the need to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on the guest OS. The second explains why VirtualBox relies on a host key to return the cursor/keyboard control back to your host.
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/make-virtualbox-full-screen/
https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/user/intro-running.html#keyb_mouse_normalI hope they help,
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Thanks @s_crossman for your reply. The links are helpful. But I need to work little hard to resolve the issue.
Kind regards,
Manoj.
After installing Guest Additions (there was an issue first which was solved by installing gcc perl and make) all is good now. Once again thanks @s_crossman .