Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> Apr 30 11:36AM -0700 ^
On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> In Virtual Box, you make the Windows screen larger by increasing the
> screen resolution inside of Windows (right-click on the Windows
> desktop and choose Properties > Settings)
*Thanks* for this. I found a res that now enables windows to open to
about 3/4 of the monitor and this will do me fine for now.
Gee, these virtual machines are quite fun eh! Thanks for recommending
it. I love not having to fire up my dedicated winbox (which is not
connected to broadband and I rarely can be bothered to put it on line
via dialup). With this VirtualBox, I was simply online on my
broadband and fast, did nothing at all to get this, the Mac concerned
is just connected wirelessly. I went with the free Avast anti-virus,
I don't use email on win and don't click suspicious links but I still
worry, seeing how it is win. I open the virtual machine, look at what
I want and close the virtual machine afterwards. Need to find out
more about virus protection for it...
And in thinking some more about it I realized that I'd neglected to
install the VIrtualBox Guest Additions (in the Mac menu) on my Mac
here, which enables the same autosizing that the $$ competitors do.
Once those are enabled you have a Virtual Box menu item "Auto-Resize
Guest Display".
When you do get riun the Guest Additions script in Windows, you will
get an error that it isn't signed for XP compatibility, continue
anyway.
Yes, thanks for this too, I will get around to this, it is probably
the better solution.
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