How to make virtualbox full screen windows 7

If you go to Windows 10 display settings right click the desktop and select Display settings in the context menu , you can increase the guest OS resolution, but you still have no ability to switch the full screen mode on. For example, in our case the resolution of the monitor is x and the maximum resolution in the Windows 10 guest settings is x available resolution settings of the guest OS are not for widescreen displays, as you can see.

The process of installing Guest Additions is quite straightforward. After finishing the installation, reboot the VM. Once VirtualBox Guest Additions are installed, you can see a different set of resolution settings in the Windows 10 guest. Move the mouse pointer over the corner of the VM window, push the left mouse button and change the size of the VM window.

The resolution of the user interface of guest Windows 10 is automatically changed. Now you can maximize the VM window size of the Windows 10 guest. As an alternative, you can press the combination of the VirtualBox Host key and F. You cannot increase the screen resolution in the display options. Only the x resolution is available in these settings. Open the console in your host machine.

Set the necessary resolution with VBoxManage which is a command line configuration tool of VirtualBox. The defined resolution can be less than or equal to the resolution of your physical monitor connected to your physical host machine. I can assure you that you will be able to change the VirtualBox screen resolution and make VirtualBox full screen.

Once your virtual machine is restarted, the VM opens in full screen mode and the display options disabled earlier are now enabled.

This option allows you to run the virtual machine with the same screen height and width as of the host computer. Do let me know in the comments if you get VirtualBox full screen and able to change screen resolution on Windows 10 after going through this article. Active 7 months ago. Viewed k times.

Improve this question. Have you installed the virtualbox extensions and guest additions? So could you kindly tell me how do I get these extensions and additions?

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. January January I install that but nothing happened : — Yuseferi. SO unfair. Doing it in ubuntu is soo freakin hard. Back to main window, left side choose virtual system you want to start.

Hans 1, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges. It does not work for me. Changing the "Maximum Guest Screen Size" option to "None" worked for me - if that doesn't work, try enabling 3D acceleration as well.

Changed virtual box display settings to "hint" changed the input to x Started the virtual box and clicked full screen. I also had to click the display button in the virtual box and enable "Auto-resize Guest Display".