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Display Resolution on windows 10 guest
Posted: 23. Apr 2016, 18:54
by cold
Hello,
I use a ubuntu host an a virtualbox 4.3.36. My guest is a Windows 10 system. The problem is that the max. display resulution I can choose is 1280x1024. So I used the command:
VBoxManage setextradata VMNAME \"CustomVideoMode1" "1920x1080x16"
In the past that works an I made this entry in the *.vbox file. Everything was fine and I cold use higher resulutions on my windows 10.
But after some Umdates now this does not work any more. So what can I do? An guests here with the same Problem?
Greetings Nixdorf
Re: Display Resolution on windows 10 guest
Posted: 23. Apr 2016, 19:24
by Perryg
Post the guests log file ( as an attachment ). Right click on the guest in the Main Manager then click show log. Save and post as an attachment. Compress if it is too large to post.
Re: Display Resolution on windows 10 guest
Posted: 24. Apr 2016, 18:18
by cold
Hello,
here is the logfile in as atachment.
Greetings, thanks for helping....
Re: Display Resolution on windows 10 guest
Posted: 24. Apr 2016, 18:21
by Perryg
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00:00:00.201464 Package type: LINUX_64BITS_GENERIC (OSE)
You are using the Ubuntu fork of VirtualBox and you would need to ask them for help or remove theirs and install the official version from virtualbox.org
Re: Display Resolution on windows 10 guest
Posted: 29. Apr 2016, 14:10
by cold
Hello,
now I changed to virtualbox.org. I made again this entry in the win10.vbox file: <ExtraDataItem name="CustomVideoMode1" value="1920x1080x32"/>
But I still cold not use the 1920x1080 Resolution in my windows10 Virtualbox.
Any Idea what I can do? The new Loglie is here in the atachments.
Greetings Nixdorf
Re: Display Resolution on windows 10 guest
Posted: 29. Apr 2016, 14:15
by Perryg
Sure. Remove the entry about custom size and make sure that auto-resize is enabled. Then use the host+F toggle to go in and out of full screen.
Re: Display Resolution on windows 10 guest
Posted: 1. May 2016, 16:33
by cold
Hello,
thanks for the tip, but auto-resize is no solution for me course the quality there not so good. The output of the display ist distorted.
I need to select a 1920x1080 Resolution in my windows guest system for a better quality.
Any ideas, what I can do?
Greeting Nixdorf
Re: Display Resolution on windows 10 guest
Posted: 1. May 2016, 16:49
by Perryg
Auto-resize is no different than going full screen. Maybe you are confusing scale mode which is horrible quality. I suggest you remove the custom hint and just use the host+F toggle to go in and out of full screen.
Anyway I have given you all I can with a Windows guest. Someone that actually uses it will need to continue since we have covered anything that could be caused by the host.