Increase the resolution of Debian Guest in VirtualBox


Robert Franz

I have a windows 7 host and a debian 8 guest. I have installed

virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-guest-dkms

As described in https://askubuntu.com/questions/3205/higher-screen-resolution-in-virtualbox . I can choose up to 1024*768 before installing these packages. After installation, 1600*1200 can be set. But I just want to use 1920*1080 fullscreen on my monitor.

Cannot press Host-G. I deactivate this combination. How to increase VirtualBox resolution beyond 800x600 in Linux?

Is there a way to do this?

Robert Franz

Meanwhile, I found a solution.

There are two instructions showing how it works:

First: How to adjust screen resolution in Debian?

Second place : http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=78330#p429581

in short:

$ cvt 1920 1080 60
# 1920x1080 59.96 Hz (CVT 2.07M9) hsync: 67.16 kHz; pclk: 173.00 MHz
Modeline "1920x1080_60.00"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
$ xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
$ xrandr --addmode VBOX0 "1920x1080_60.00"
$ xrandr --output VBOX0 --mode 1920x1080_60.00

After executing these commands, the new resolution will be displayed automatically. Furthermore, these commands must be executed after each boot of the operating system.

Meanwhile, I wrote a blog post on the topic : http://www.robert-franz.com/2015/06/28/adding-new-resolution-to-the-x-window-server/

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