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744490 2009-02-03 05:10:00 Can someone please help me increase my screen res for a Ubuntu machine running in Virtual Box. I only seem to get options for 800 x 600 and 640 x 480. I would like to bump it up to 1024 x 768 if possible.


Cheers
stormdragon (6013)
744491 2009-02-03 08:16:00 Have you installed the guest additions on the client VM? - I've only briefly mucked about with VB, but with VMware, the dedicated VMware graphics driver gives you a lot more options than the default driver Ubuntu picks for the "standard" VMware graphics [emulated] controller. MushHead (10626)
744492 2009-02-03 08:59:00 From what I understand Ubuntu tries to auto detect your screen resolution based on your monitor.

Google is your friend:
www.google.co.nz

See the 8th post :)
Chilling_Silence (9)
744493 2009-02-04 00:53:00 Additions were installed. Have since rebuilt the VM and got it working better.

Thanks
stormdragon (6013)
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