Hello all,
I need some tips with rotating the screen in Windows 7. I installed the Guest Additions. The screen rotate setting is not where it should be in Win7. I do not see any settings in VirturalBox to rotate the screen. Can anyone help please?
--Skade
Rotate display in windows 7
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Re: Rotate display in windows 7
Rotation is a driver feature and if you need rotation, use the Host for that. What use is it to have the Guest rotated when the Guest stays the way it is?
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Re: Rotate display in windows 7
If I understand your question correctly, you have rotated your host screen, but the guest you are running in VB is still in landscape mode so that the guest desktop disappears off the side of the monitor and there is dead space above and below the guest desktop. This was the same problem I had, and I was able to fix it by going to the Machine menu in VB and selecting "Auto-Resize Guest Display."
I hope this helps.
I hope this helps.
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Re: Rotate display in windows 7
Hi,
I am a Designer and it is of great use for me to have 16:9 or 9:16 and 4:3 or 3:4 screeen format options, regardless of host screen.
That way I can simulate 2 digital signage screens within my own host screen and I will be able to put both 16:9 and 9:16 side by side and check how stuff is going, and for design purposes to have a virtual machine as digital signage player
Even for site development nowadays it does come in handy, so I can check not only several resolutions for responsive development as I can check Logged in and Looged out versions of a site
And quite a few other aplications
So yes... for quite a lot of us, screen rotation is of extreme importance
now with this in mind, let me ask how do I proceed to have 2 virtual machines running side by side, one in portrait and the other one in landscape?
waiting for your response
thank you
Best regards
I am a Designer and it is of great use for me to have 16:9 or 9:16 and 4:3 or 3:4 screeen format options, regardless of host screen.
That way I can simulate 2 digital signage screens within my own host screen and I will be able to put both 16:9 and 9:16 side by side and check how stuff is going, and for design purposes to have a virtual machine as digital signage player
Even for site development nowadays it does come in handy, so I can check not only several resolutions for responsive development as I can check Logged in and Looged out versions of a site
And quite a few other aplications
So yes... for quite a lot of us, screen rotation is of extreme importance
now with this in mind, let me ask how do I proceed to have 2 virtual machines running side by side, one in portrait and the other one in landscape?
waiting for your response
thank you
Best regards
Re: Rotate display in windows 7
Try using the Guest's own settings, e.g. in Windows 10 you search search for "screen orientation".
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Re: Rotate display in windows 7
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Well the attached is an example of a today problem which could be easily solved if the display driver for a notebook was available. with both invert and rotate.Sasquatch wrote:Rotation is a driver feature and if you need rotation, use the Host for that. What use is it to have the Guest rotated when the Guest stays the way it is?
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Re: Rotate display in windows 7
"Portrait mode" is a solution when the physical screen needs to be rotated. If one physically rotates a laptop or monitor and sets the host to Portrait, and the VM has Auto-Resize Guest Display enabled, per 'ftrobaugh' above, the VM will follow the tall narrow screen shape and be portraited too.
But one can achieve the tall and narrow screen size concept by dragging the screen to tall and narrow proportions on a landscape monitor.
But one can achieve the tall and narrow screen size concept by dragging the screen to tall and narrow proportions on a landscape monitor.