Multiple Monitors on Windows 10

[mschumacker]

Downloading that VM now, but its going to take a bit today.

Did notice that on my guest, the Guest Additions system tray icon doesn't appear. I manually went into the install directory and launch vboxtray.exe. Once I did that, the View -> Virtual Screen 1 sub menu items became enabled...however, clicking on them didn't do anything.

Thought that was interesting through.

Again, I appreciate the help

[socratis]

OK, it works out of the box. Unfortunately, they had the GAs installed already (I hoped they wouldn't) so I can't test if this feature requires the GAs or not. When I have some time, I will try to setup another guest and see what happens.

[mschumacker]

Ok...again, thanks for the help.

Downloaded that VM..and still no ability to get the resizing of resolution working. Didn't even get to try multiple monitors.

I also just created a brand new VM, installed a fresh copy of Win10 Pro, and no dice. It looked promising as after I log in to the VM, the View -> Virtual Screen 1 sub menu items are all enabled, but selecting them does nothing. Also tried to manually resize the screen, but all that happens is I get a windowed VM in the middle.

I did try out Parallels which I can actually get multiple monitors in full screen mode. Would love to get this same thing working in VirtualBox as its free, and I like the windowed look also since I toggle back and forth from host to guest quite a lot.

This is just crazy.

[mschumacker]

Even better...just tried two monitors and they both worked. The only problem, I can't resize either. The first one I can pick between 800x600, or 1024x768, but the second one only allows 640x480.

I can copy and paste, so GA is installed.

I also tried to set the CustomVideoMode1 to 1900x1000x32, but that had no effect.

Just crazy.

[socratis]

1. Please stop obsessing with the View Menu. Deal with your guest directly.
2. You say GAs are installed. I didn't see any evidence. See Minimum information needed for assistance.
3. If it didn't work with the stock VM, you have some problem, or you're not holding it right. See 1.