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Virtual screen resize

bharathkumarkri — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 00:01:48 GMT

I am using the sandbox in my Virtual box 5.1. However, I am not able to resize the virtual screen. The resize options (resolutions) are not getting enabled when I start the sandbox.

In the Devices menu, I added the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso but not able to resize even after that. Its too tedious to check and work in a small screen.

Please help.

Re: Virtual screen resize

myoung — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 00:26:31 GMT

@Bharath Kumar K

Adding the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso file to the VM doesn't actually install the guest additions. Once you add the ISO to the image, you have to install the guest additions.

Here are the instructions for install the guest additions:

https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Virtualization/VirtualBox/CentOSguest

Re: Virtual screen resize

bharathkumarkri — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 00:58:15 GMT

Hi Micheal

I ran the command "yim install dkms" after logging into samdbox with root/mypwd. It further installed the packages for the kernel-devl with the same being extracted and downloaded. Then I moved to /dev.

However, after that I am not able to navigate to sr0 directory. Am not sure how to proceed. If I check for cdrom under /dev, that is also available as a link file pointing to sr0.

Please help.

Re: Virtual screen resize

myoung — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 13:16:11 GMT

On a CentOS based VM, the ISO usually mounted under /media.