Friday, August 24, 2012

What to do if Virtualbox won't go full-screen


These are the steps to take if just clicking on "Install Guest Additions" isn't working.

1. Start the Virtualbox instance that you would like to see in full-screen
2. Go to the 'Devices' menu for VirtualBox.
3.
Select 'Install Guest Additions'.
4.
Open Terminal
5. Navigate to root and then:

> cd media
> cd VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.20_80170 (or whatever your vbox folder is called)
>
sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

6. Wait for update to complete.
7. Once complete, shut down Ubuntu.
8. Restart VirtualBox


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