How to Change Screen Resolution

[golf22r]

I am running the latest release of Virtualbox on a Linux host, Ubuntu 7.04, and I have Windows XP Home as the guest operating system. I installed the Virtualbox additions which give me more screen resolution options, but it still does not have my resolution of 1440x900. Does anybody know how I can add this resolution Thank you.

[bodhi.zazen]

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[bodhi.zazen]

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VBoxManage controlvm "Guest" setvideomodehint "1440" "900" "24"

Where :

* "Guest" is the name of the Guest OS.
* "1440" and "900" are the desired resolution.
* "24" is the desired color depth (8,16,24)

[don_jorgito]

Hi,

I'm running 1.4 release of Virtualbox on a Linux host, Gentoo up to date, and I have Windows XP Pro as the guest operating system.

I also installed the Virtualbox additions which give me more screen resolution options.

-How can I downgrade the resolution to 640x480 at 16 colors?

I try

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VBoxManage controlvm "Guest" setvideomodehint "640" "480" "16"

but nothing happens...

[bodhi.zazen]

1. replace "guest" with the name of the virtual machine.

2. I think you need to run that with windows powered down.

3. But, ever better, just change the resolution on the windows guest directly ...