Re: [Hampshire] Resize screen in virtaul box

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Author: Alan Pope
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Resize screen in virtaul box
2009/9/6 Tim <xendistar@???>:
> I am running Virtaulbox 3.04 on a windows PC, the guest OS in virtaul box is
> Debian testing with XCFE desktop. At the moment when I run the guest OS it runs
> in 1280x1024 which is the same as my desktop so I end up having to scroll the
> screen. Ideally I would like to reduce the guest OS screen down in size but at
> the moment, I am stumped.
>


Have you installed the guest additions in the guest?

If you do that then you should be able to dynamically resize the guest
window to any arbitrary size you like.

Cheers,
Al.