On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:21:37 -0500, you wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Kees Nuyt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:36:46 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>> >Hello all,
>> >
>> >When I create a guest VM it seems sometimes I get a decent size display
>> (in
>> >case of Fedora, for instance) yet in other situations I get stuck with
>> >something minuscule (like, Ubuntu only thinks it can do 800x600 and no
>> >more). How do I control that? How do I choose what size/type display to
>> >emulate undet VirtualBox?
>>
>> Did you install the VBox Guest Additions in the guest?
>> They take care of that (and some more useful things).
>>
>> http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html
>>
>> >Thanks.
>> >
>> >Boris.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kees Nuyt
>>
>>
>Kees,
>
>Thanks!

My pleasure.

>This helped some - for instance, now I have a bunch of resolutions
>available to me and am currently using 1152x864 - but why can't I have
>1280x1024 which is my display's native resolution?

Choose:
* Drag a window corner to resize it to any resolution you like.
* hostkey + F (toggle)
* hostkey + L (toggle)

Description of those are in the fine manual.

-- 
Regards,

Kees Nuyt


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