#How to make virtualbox full screen how to#
#How to make virtualbox full screen install#
#How to make virtualbox full screen drivers#
#How to make virtualbox full screen update#

Just click the View menu and then select the Full-screen Mode option.

Now, it’s time to make VirtualBox full screen.

So, click on the desktop to close the menu, wait for a few seconds and then open the View menu again. If you see this option disabled that means this feature is not loaded yet after installing the Guest Additions. Click the View menu and then click the Auto-resize Guest Display the option.

After reboot, once you are on the Desktop, wait for a few seconds and let the VM loads the Desktop completely.

So, select the Reboot now and click the Finish button.

Once completed you need to reboot the Virtual Machine.

#How to make virtualbox full screen install#

It will take about a minute to install this.

Leave the component as it is and click the Install button.

Keep the installation location default and click Next.

The installation wizard for the VirtualBox Guest Additions is very simple, just click Next.

Double click on the CD drive icon to autorun the setup. Open up the File Explorer in the VM, select This PC from the left side and you will see the VirtualBox Guest Additions CD is ready to use.

This will insert a virtual disk in the virtual machine Cd drive.

When you are running a virtual machine in VirtualBox, Click the Devices menu on the top and select the “Insert Guest Additions CD image…” option from the menu.

Make Virtual Machine Fullscreen in VirtualBox Press the keyboard shortcut, Host+C (which is Right Ctrl+C).

So, to make the virtual machine cover the whole screen we need to go back to windowed mode.

I also tried to change the resolution from the Settings but there was no correct resolution option according to my display. I want this completely fullscreen to get the normal Windows desktop experience.

As you can see below, VM gets fullscreen but the desktop or working area is still a small box in the middle, and the remaining area is black.

#How to make virtualbox full screen how to#

I got a message screen that told me the shortcut key and how to switch between fullscreen and windowed mode, so I just click the OK button.

Its, View > Full-Screen Mode or you can press the shortcut key from the keyboard, Host+F (where Host is the Right-Control key on the keyboard) I was trying to make the Windows 11 Virtual Machine full screen from the View menu of VirtualBox.

As you can see I was running Windows 11 in VirtualBox.

Note: Pre-release alpha versions of Ubuntu are likely to not yet perform as expected. We then should be able to resize or scale the guest screen, or enter full screen mode with Host + F.Īlso see Adjusting display geometry in a virtual machine? for additional options to adjust screen geometry.

In rare cases we may have a better performance with an older Ubuntu release, or a more lightweight derivate such as Lubuntu, or Xubuntu.Īfter having installed the guest additions the guest OS needs a reboot for the virtual driver to be loaded.

#How to make virtualbox full screen update#

Update the guest operation system from command line (hold left Shift key on booting to enter a root shell) and then run: apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade How do I install the VirtualBox version from Oracle to install an Extension Pack? Make sure we have 3D-acceleration enabled in the virtual machine settings, and allow enough of video memory:

We then have the following options we may try the follwing:

#How to make virtualbox full screen drivers#

Older versions of Virtual Box may be incompatible with either the graphics drivers from the host, or with the guest Ubuntu version. In case this fails we may try to reinstall guest additions, and watch out for errors we may get when doing so. In case we have no functioning GUI we may install the guest additions from command line.How do I install Guest Additions in a VirtualBox VM?.

To be able to scale the screen geometry, and to enable fullscreen mode of a Virtual Box guest Ubuntu we need to install the guest additions: