MacAdministrator on 29 Aug 2007 06:01 pm
[VirtualBox] How to modify the screen resolution to widescreen?
After using VirtralBox, I was starting to find the widescreen solution. Because of the original VGA driver in XP VM doesn’t support 1280×800 or 1440×900.
I spend a few time to find out the correct step in Internet. I record here to avoid I forget.
Step:
1. Start the VM (ex. run XP)
2. Open the terminal and type:
VBoxManage controlvm “Windows XP” setvideomodehint “1440″ “900″ “32″
Windows XP is the name of VM
This command is change the resolution to 1440×900 32bit color
on 16 Feb 2008 at 11:55 pm # Johnny
I tried your suggestion on my MacBook, but I got the following response in the terminal:
VBoxManage controlvm “Windows XP” setvideomodehint “1280″ “800″ “32″
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.5.51
(C) 2005-2008 innotek GmbH
All rights reserved.
[!] FAILED calling virtualBox->FindMachine (Bstr(argv[0]), machine.asOutParam()) at line 5380!
[!] Primary RC = 0×80070057
[!] Full error info present: true , basic error info present: true
[!] Result Code = 0×80070057
[!] Text = Could not find a registered machine named ‘Windows XP’
[!] Component = VirtualBox, Interface: IVirtualBox, {64f652cb-7fdf-482d-ae19-4dbb289a5ca0}
[!] Callee = IVirtualBox, {64f652cb-7fdf-482d-ae19-4dbb289a5ca0}
Do you know what might be the problem?
on 04 May 2008 at 11:48 pm # kuba
Thanks.
on 07 May 2008 at 5:01 am # Jos
Thanks!
on 04 Nov 2008 at 3:01 am # Felipe Vergara
Host Key + G
My case, RIGHT CNTRL+G
That solves de problem…
on 06 Nov 2008 at 7:27 am # Yasya
Thanks for the info!
on 11 Jan 2009 at 7:27 pm # krishna
it doesn’t work i get error
on 19 Jan 2009 at 1:09 am # seven
doesn’t seem to work for me
on 06 Aug 2009 at 1:01 am # Zashkaser
Ya put a smile in my face.
on 09 Mar 2010 at 4:11 pm # ylan
Cool, problem solved (windows XP SP3 on Mac OS X).
on 15 Apr 2010 at 10:51 am # Steve
See his note above “Windows XP” is the name of VM. If your VM is named differently, you’ll need to put that in the quotes.
For instance, my command line is:
VBoxManage controlvm “Windows XP MCE 2005” setvideomodehint “1440″ “900″ “32″