Vertica Community Edition Experience in Oracle Virtual Box

manoj_dixit

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.

s_crossman

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_normal

I hope they help,

manoj_dixit

Thanks @s_crossman for your reply. The links are helpful. But I need to work little hard to resolve the issue.
Kind regards,
Manoj.

manoj_dixit

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 .