[CoLoCo] vbox resolution help

[Chomafin]

I believe that you will need to install the "guest additions" from within
your Virtual Machine.  You can find it from the Vbox Device menu>Install
Guest Additions.

Quoted from the Vbox wiki <http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox>:
*Guest Additions for Windows and Linux.* VirtualBox has special software
that can be installed inside Windows and Linux virtual machines to improve
performance and make integration much more seamless. Among the features
provided by these Guest Additions are mouse pointer integration and
arbitrary screen solutions (e.g. by resizing the guest window).


I hope this helps.

- Ian

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>wrote:

> I have been playing more and more with vbox but one thing I cannot fix is
> the lame resolution. Every OS I try (all Linux based so far) ends up with an
> fairly unusable 800x600 resolution and even with guest additions installed I
> cannot get it do anything else. I also use vbox at work on a mac to run
> windows (needed for AD - blech) and it will scale the windows desktop to
> whatever size window I create. I'm not sure what version they installed at
> work (i.e. OSE or not). Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
> Thanks.
>
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