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I have dual monitors and a VM in virtual box with two displays, which gives me two separate windows. Is it possible to make only one of these VirtualBox windows full screen?
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When a VirtualBox VM client is running with a fullscreen window, minimizing it is done with the mouse touching the bottom of the screen and clicking the minimize button when the toolbar appears, or pressing Host+F to leave fullscreen mode and minimizing it.
To exit from a full-screen session, do one of the following: Click the window close icon in the toolbar. Use the Host-Q key combination.
In the VM Window menu, go to View and make sure that the Auto-resize Guest Display option is enabled. Move the mouse pointer over the corner of the VM window, push the left mouse button and change the size of the VM window.
With the seamless windows feature of Oracle VM VirtualBox, you can have the windows that are displayed within a virtual machine appear side by side next to the windows of your host. This feature is supported for the following guest operating systems, provided that the Guest Additions are installed: Windows guests.
This should make the VirtualBox window full screen instead of scaled. 2 Answers 2. If you want to make a VM window to be full screen, you have to install the Guest Additions package in your VM. To do so, you have to: Once you have launched your VM, in the top menú, select "Devices -> Install Guest Additions".
After finishing installation reboot the Linux VM. Now you can change the size of the VM window, and the resolution of your guest Linux will fit the size of the VM window automatically. Go to View > Full screen mode or press the Host+F combination to make VirtualBox full screen for your Linux guest.
You can also press the “Host+F [right ctrl+F / cmd+F]” key to set full-screen mode. The VirtualBox will automatically set the resolution and screen size. While installing guest additions, you may encounter an error as shown in the image below:
Using a full-screen mode for a virtual machine is convenient and allows you to appreciate the advantages of hardware virtualization. This feature allows you to use the guest OS on the VM much as it would be used on a host machine for high resolution applications, large workspace, etc.
I was also facing same issue.
I installed 6.0.8 form here on my windows machine then installed ubuntu-19.04.
When I start it, got small window screen.
I looked for that in many articles such as-
Last article advice me to install some Guest Additions from Virtual Box but that also didn't worked.
solution was very small and easy-
settings > Devices.That produced required result.
Note- You may have different regularization size. sometime may not have suitable resolution.
Hope will help you!
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If you want to make a VM window to be full screen, you have to install the Guest Additions package in your VM. To do so, you have to:
Once you have launched your VM, in the top menú, select "Devices -> Install Guest Additions". After that, the Guest Additions .iso will be loaded.
You will see the .iso loaded as a CD image. Run it and it will launch the install process in a Terminal. Follow the instructions until the end of the install process.
Reboot your VM.
After that, you will be able to make the VM window full screen, or any size that you want.
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another way is to go to settings>display and change scale factor to 200%
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