I have a mac book pro running Snow Leopard and have installed vbox so that I could run Windows 7 on here. I appear to have this working (the os is operational).
I need help with...
1) I cannot seem to change the size of the Windows 7 guest inside vbox. When I maximize or drag my vbox window to make it larger, Windows 7 stays the same (small) size... Ideally I'd like this to open and default to nearly the same size as a full screen
2) The commands (at the top of the vbox menu) don't do what they say (e.g. Host+A is supposed to adjust window size... nothing happens).
3) How can I get the Windows 7 guest to see my harddrive on my mac and use it as a shared folder?
4) How do I get sound and printing (to my mac connected printer) working from Windows (the internet works fine, which makes me wonder why this got set up as a default)?
There will probably be more so thanks for your help and expertise! -m
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Re: Something's wrong
Install Guest Additions and search forum for "realtek".
German Howto (Linux): http://www.linuxforen.de/forums/showthread.php?t=236444
User Manual / Download Section: http://www.virtualbox.de/wiki/Downloads
FAQ: http://www.virtualbox.de/wiki/User_FAQ http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=8669
User Manual / Download Section: http://www.virtualbox.de/wiki/Downloads
FAQ: http://www.virtualbox.de/wiki/User_FAQ http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=8669
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Re: Something's wrong
Well, do you have VirtualBox Guest Additions installed??mcgrathva wrote:I have a mac book pro running Snow Leopard and have installed vbox so that I could run Windows 7 on here. I appear to have this working (the os is operational).
I need help with...
1) I cannot seem to change the size of the Windows 7 guest inside vbox. When I maximize or drag my vbox window to make it larger, Windows 7 stays the same (small)
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No, and I see what the issue is after reading the manual... impetuous by nature....
So, now I'm trying to install the vboxguestadditions.iso file (mounting it in the vm), but I can't find the file in Finder on my mac (I can't see an installation directory).
Ideas?
So, now I'm trying to install the vboxguestadditions.iso file (mounting it in the vm), but I can't find the file in Finder on my mac (I can't see an installation directory).
Ideas?
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Re: Something's wrong
Sorry for the fire drill... I was able to isolate the iso file to my mac desktop and mounted it to my vm image...