2010/4/12 James Allsopp <jamesaalls...@googlemail.com> > Hi, > How have people managed to get debian in virtual box to display with a > resolution higher than 800x600. I've tried reinstalling with a higher video > memory setting and installing the guest additions. Was finding it difficult > to find out if the additions actually installed correctly, so if anyone can > help me with that I'd be grateful. > > Best regards > Jim >
Hi, the first thing you can trry is to set up a shared directory in your host OS and try to mount it in the guest OS. If it works it means the additions were successfully installed. Note that after a kernel upgrade or virtualbox upgrade you should reinstall the additions (it should even be prompted when you start the VM). Also, what version of Debian are you running: lenny? squeeze? Any kind of exotic graphic card? (though that shouldn't matter for the guest display). Sorry, I replied to Jim instead of the user list ^^
