Display 1024x768 MacOS 10.6.8, how to get more

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raymate
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Display 1024x768 MacOS 10.6.8, how to get more

Post by raymate »

New to virtualbox moved over from Parallels, been trying for a few days to get this to work im running virtualbox on a iMac running 10.13 as the host, using Version 6.1.32 r149290

Installed and setup my VM for MacOS 10.6.8 fine from my original retail disc pack, that all works perfectly.
I've see that many threads have gone over this before but all the suggestion I have tried do not work.
Ideally I want to get to something bigger than 1024x768

Ive edited the file "com.apple.Boot.plist" that in the "root --> Library --> Preferences --> SystemConfiguration" with:

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<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1600x900</string>
I also tried:

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<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>"Graphics Mode"="1600x900"</string>
That has not helped, some solution talk about adding this change into the "com.apple.Boot.plist" file in the "Extras" folder my fresh installation has no "Extras" folder.

All the solutions I have found are not really recent and mainly talk about virtualbox version 4 and 5, do we have a new method for version 6

Many thanks

My current plist looks like this:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Kernel</key>
	<string>mach_kernel</string>
	<key>Kernel Flags</key>
	<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
	<string>Yes</string>	
	<key>Graphics Mode</key>
	<string>"Graphics Mode"="1600x900x32"</string>
	<string></string>
</dict>
</plist>
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Re: Display 1024x768 MacOS 10.6.8, how to get more

Post by granada29 »

See https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#efi

There are a number of video resolutions you can use.
raymate
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Re: Display 1024x768 MacOS 10.6.8, how to get more

Post by raymate »

Thank you, well that was easy.... looking at various tutorials and its so long winded I just opened terminal on my host iMac and typed:

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VBoxManage setextradata "MacOS 10.6.8" VBoxInternal2/EfiGraphicsResolution 1600x900
and it worked..... Job done..

All I need to do now is work out how to use 2 CPU but I shall start another thread for that :)

Thanks again
granada29 wrote:See #efi

There are a number of video resolutions you can use.
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