How to resize (make larger) guest windows in virtualbox?

Nathan England nathan at paysonlinux.org
Sat Sep 12 00:17:37 MST 2009


> Finally got virtualbox running on my Linux machine, but the guest
> window is too small.  How can I resize and make the guest window
> larger ... ideally to fill my 21" monitor display?
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Much like VMware, VB has a guestadditions.iso that has special video
drivers for the guest machine. Have you installed these? Once the VM is
running, click on a button at the top, I forget which at the moment, and
select Install Guest Additions and it will load the iso and take off.



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