[CoLoCo] vbox resolution help

[TC]

Quoting from the original message.

"and even with guest additions installed"

Try host-g or the auto adjust setting from the menu.

Chomafin wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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