On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Otis Gospodnetic <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > > ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: Mark Cranness <[email protected]> >> To: Community mailing list of VirtualBox users >><[email protected]> >> Sent: Thu, September 2, 2010 1:58:46 AM >> Subject: Re: [VBox-users] Q: Maximizing guest VM's screen? >> >> Otis Gospodnetic wrote: >> > I'm having a hard time figuring out how to maximize the screen of my >> > guest VM. The host is Windows 7, while Ubuntu 10.04 is the guest VM. >> > I'm using VirtualBox 3.2.8. >> >> 1) Also select the 'Auto-resize guest display' option (on the Machine >> menu), > > I didn't select that explicitly, but I think it is ON because it is grayed out > in the Machine menu. > I also see "Enter Seamless Mode" in the Machine menu, which is also grayed out > and I can't select it. > In addition, I see Adjust Windows Size, which is not grayed out. When I > select > it it just resizes the VM "container window" down to its original small size > if > I manually made it bigger. > >> AND >> 2) Install Guest Additions on the guest (if not already installed). > > I do see "Install Guest Additions" under the Devices menu, but when I select > that nothing happens. My understanding is that this should get an ISO mounted > on my guest VM (Ubuntu), but that doesn't seem to happen. I don't see any > errors anywhere, including /var/log/messages. > Maybe Guest Additions are already installed? How can I check? I know when I
Try "lsmod | grep vbox" if you see vboxguest and vboxsf modules, then it is installed. if not, try getting the guestaddition iso mounte, and run autorun.sh > start the guest VM I get some dialogs about the mouse and keyboard (and > copy-pasting works in guest VM no problem, for example) > > Any help would be greatly appreciated - working in 640x480 terminal is no fun! > :) > > Otis > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
