Enable fullscreen in Ubuntu Virtualbox VM without guest addition


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To delve into web application hacking, I installed a dedicated virtual lab set up by an academic SEED project . This prebuilt VM ( Ubuntu 16.04 based ) is already configured with everything required by the challenge.

Since the VM starts in fullscreen mode, I expect the guest add / DKMS package to be installed, but that doesn't seem to be the case: neither dpkg -l guestnor dpkg -s virtualbox-guest-utilseven the dpkg -s virtualbox-guest-dkmscommand is actually able to find the said package.

So just out of curiosity, am I looking in the wrong place, or are they using another technique to get fullscreen mode without a guest addition driver?

Notice. : I've of course tried other commands to try to locate the package, egdpkg -l | grep guest, but with no more success.

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Guest additions can also be installed via .run that dpkg doesn't know about. Do a ls /sbin/*vbox*lookup binary.

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