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okay...

So I have virtualbox installed on an Ubuntu 8.10 Host. My Guest is XP, and my resoloution is set at 800x600...

I would like to make my resoloution a bit bigger, and full screen, but my windows properties settings will not change so that I am able to fix my resolution, This happened when i added the "guest addtions" to my VM...

Anyone know how I can fix it to possibly make my screen fit properly into my whole screen on my monitor so that I can view sites and what not on it properly..? Its really hard to design and markup a website when you can't tell how it will turn out on your VM in IE or something.

Thank you for any help that may come along.

If the GA are installed properly on the Guest, it should work just fine. However, some need to create or edit their /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and add a few lines. This is what I have in my Xubuntu 8.10 VM.

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Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"vboxvideo"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "vboxmouse"
        Driver          "vboxmouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"        0 0
        InputDevice     "vboxmouse"
EndSection

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