It would be nice to be able to have vbox recognize widescreen resolutions automatically. It's a pain to have to figure out the vboxmanage commands every time I set up a new machine to get the resolutions to work right. Seems like I'm always stuck in 4:3 aspect ratios when there are hardly any screens on the market anymore that have that resolution. Am I missing something here, or is the vbox video driver just behind the times?
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Full Resolution Automatically
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Re: Full Resolution Automatically
I don't know specifically how to fix your problem but I suspect that if you install Guest Additions on your guest, then full-screen the guest on a 16x9 monitor, that might show the guest OS that other-than-4x3 is possible. I might be wrong.
Older OS's didn't know about 16x9, so all they had was 4x3 and 5x4, they need drivers to show 16x9. GAs provide these drivers.
Older OS's didn't know about 16x9, so all they had was 4x3 and 5x4, they need drivers to show 16x9. GAs provide these drivers.