Fullscreen in Virtualbox

JawsThemeSwimming428 · 2008-07-11 22:14:26

I have Arch with KDEmod installed in a VM so I can test it out before I install to HD. I set everything up and most things seem to be working good. However, I can not seem to get the resolution to go fullscreen. I would like to hit a 1680x1050 resolution but can't seem to figure out where to change this. Any ideas?

lldmer · 2008-07-11 22:18:59

Did you install the virtualbox guest tools on your (virtualized) guest system?

live4nothing · 2008-07-12 00:47:45

I have the same problem with virtualbox. I did install the guest additions, mouse sync works fine except the resolution. I manually changed the modes in xorg.conf, but it would not set to the new resolution. If you get it to work, please let me know. thanks

Square · 2008-07-12 01:33:16

Try making the window maximized and then setting the resolution. I was having the same problem and it turned out that maximizing the window allowed me to set the resolution higher.

deltaecho · 2008-12-28 04:28:57

Have any of you had trouble with VB's Guest Additions integration with the new VirtualBox 2.1? I've installed Arch in a VM as my KDE4 Trunk test box, and mouse integration works, but that's it -- I cannot resize the window or copy+paste files between the host and guest. At first, mouse integration wasn't working either, but I renamed my xorg.conf and re-ran the Guest Additions installer to create a very basic, default xorg.conf, which worked.

Edit: It seems this is a known bug, see this post on the VirtualBox forums. VB's server seems to be down right now, though, so I will have to wait a while before I can research it further.

Last edited by deltaecho (2008-12-28 04:34:30)

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#1 2008-07-11 22:14:26

Fullscreen in Virtualbox

#2 2008-07-11 22:18:59

Re: Fullscreen in Virtualbox

#3 2008-07-12 00:47:45

Re: Fullscreen in Virtualbox

#4 2008-07-12 01:33:16

Re: Fullscreen in Virtualbox

#5 2008-12-28 04:28:57

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