Guest Screen Resolution Problem

[sb1920alk]

Hello,

I am new to Virtual Box. My host is Windows 7, which I have connected to my living room TV using a resolution of 1920x1080. My guest is Windows 2003. It seems like no matter what I do, the guest's screen is too big to fit on my TV. I tried the Auto-Resize option, but then the guest's menus and start menu do not fit on the screen. Without Auto-Resize enabled, the icons and menus on the guest are the same physical size on my TV as they were before I enabled the option, and I and see the whole thing, but only if I continuously scroll back and forth and up and down. When I try to set the guest's resolution using it's GUI, it's stuck on 800 by 600 and 8 bit color. (And I can only see this entire dialogue if I scroll down)

I would like a resizable guest windows who's menus and icons are fully viewable without having to scroll. Any ideas? If I were at a physical monitor using 800x600 and I changed it to 1024x768, everything would appear smaller and I would be able to see more all at once. That's basically what I want to do.

Thanks in advance.

[FrodoHobbits]

Sounds like you need to install the Guest Additions. Instructions can be found in the manual.

[sb1920alk]

Oops, I forgot to mention that in my first post. I already installed Guest Additions. I've attached a screenshot so you can have some idea of what I'm talking about. I had to reduce the screenshot's size for this post, but my host's desktop is 1920x1080. The guest's menus and icons are far to big.

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[sb1920alk]

The problem was with my host's display configuration. Since I'm using my TV, I had it set to make text 200% bigger (in Custom DPI settings) so I could read while I'm on the couch. I'm not sure why this would affect the guests, but it did.