1. Did you install the add-ons on the host in support of the guest?
2. In the guest, run /usr/bin/system-config-display and set your display
resolution - in the hardware tab, set your display type, and your
video card (which should be the one that the VBox emulates).
Cheers,
JD
Rob Dickens wrote:
> Dear vbox users,
>
> Have just installed the latest Ubuntu Linux (8.04), using the default
> (256MB RAM, 8MB video RAM) settings, and find that the resulting
> display resolution is only 800x600.
>
> This is in contrast to my earlier installation of Ubuntu 7.10, which
> gave me 1280x1024.
>
> Increasing the RAM allocation to 384MB or video RAM to 16MB didn't
> make any difference.
>
> So my question is, what should I do to increase the resolution?
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Rob
>
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