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malai5
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Post by malai5 »

Hi All

As you can see by my question, I am a novice here.
I would like to go full screen with my PCLinux TR4 distribution in VB and I heard that the additions need to be installed to do this. Is this correct???
And if so, is there anything "special" that I need to know about installing additions in the Linux guest.

This is all probably in the instructions, but it would be good to hear it from someone who has actually done it and found any pitfalls along the way.

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Post by michael »

I'm not sure whether the additions work 100% with PCLinuxOS in VirtualBox 1.3.8 (getting a set of drivers to run on all Linux distributions is a tricky thing), but you can create a snapshot and give it a try. You can revert the snapshot if the additions cause any problems.

Apart from that, you can go full screen without the additions (right ctrl + F toggles full screen), but you will need to tell the guest to change resolution in order to make full use of it.
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