How to Change Screen Resolution to 1280x800 on Macbook

[sheepo39]

I am currently running Windows 7 on my Macbook under Virtual Box. I noticed when I first installed it, that its screen resolution was 1024x800 and not 1280x800 (Resolution of Macbook). I tried to change it in Control Panel in Windows but "1280x800 wasn't there. and I'm wondering if there is a way to change the resolution to native resolution. ?

Thanks,

John

[Perryg]

Have you installed the guest additions?

[sheepo39]

How do you do that?, sorry I'm a complete n00b at this

[Perryg]

Open the guest and at the top left of the window click device tab and then click install guest additions.

[sheepo39]

Ok, so it seems that, I got it installed successfully but now the maximum is 1024x800 which is what I'm currently set at and what I need is 1280x800. Got any ideas?

Thanks.

John

[Perryg]

Click on the machine tab and make sure that the auto-resize is selected. Then you can drag the windows size with the mouse or do a (crtl + F) to go full screen. It is all in the VBox Users guide that came with the program as well as the FAQs here.

[Migara]

Changing resolution for my Win8 VM

VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/MaxGuestResolution any
VBoxManage setextradata "Win8" "CustomVideoMode1" "1280x800x32"

Here "Win8" is the name of the VM