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Hi,

I installed windows 8 on a macbook pro and just now I modified the screen resolution since I could not view a simple jpeg with the screen resolution as it was set. And so I changed it and I cannot revert it back to how it was, it's greyed out.

What can I do with this?

Are you talking about the host or the guest resolution?

Hi,

I was talking about the guest resolution but the problem solved itself by rebooting the virtual box...

I also installed properly the guest additions. Maybe that helped.

Indeed it would!

Guest additions helps with copy and paste from host to guest.

All in all, virtual box is pretty cool. I like my macbook pro with windows 8...

Yes, that too. The point of guest additions (and similar additions for other virtualization products) is to add features to the OS in the vm so that it functions better in a vm. When you first install the OS in the vm it is the standard OS which was designed to run on a standalone machine. It needs a bit of tuning to run well in a vm.

Thanks for that info. It runs very well, and a little better with the guest additions...

I feel like I have the best of both worlds. Windows for things that I like to do in windows. And mac for audiovisual stuff.
The virtual box is certainly helping the transition from pc to mac. I used to be on mac, left for pc, back to mac. If it wasn't for the virtual box I feel that I would be missing certain aspects of the pc. But there I have it on the mac.