How to enable VirtualBox Windows XP FullScreen
with VboxGuestAdditions.iso on Ubuntu 11.10 Linux
Right after installing Windows XP inside VirtualBox, I've found out
everything works fine except the screen. Even though pressing
(Right CTRL + F) was changing the Windows XP running window
to FullScreen the XP screen was taking only a part of the whole
screen area, where almost half of the screen was visible as simply
staying blank.
A bit of research and I found the issue is caused by missing
VirtualBoxGuestAdditions .
VBoxAdditions is a package which should be installed inside the
VirtualBox by navigating to
Devices -> Install Guest
Additions
Virtualbox offers a download of a
VboxGuestAdditions_4.1.2_Ubuntu.iso from url;
http://dlc.sun.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.1.2_Ubuntu/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.1.2_Ubuntu.iso,
anyways this download fails since the URL is currently
unavailable.
To fix this two ways are possible:
1.
Download
VBoxGuestAdditions.iso from here and put it in directory
/usr/share/virtualbox , e.g.:
root@ubuntu:~# cd /usr/share/virtualbox
root@ubuntu:/usr/share/virtualbox# wget
http://pc-freak.net/files/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
...
2.
Download and install
virtualbox-guest-additions-iso_4.1.2-1_all.deb
root@ubuntu:~# wget
http://pc-freak.net/files/virtualbox-guest-additions-iso_4.1.2-1_all.deb
...
root@ubuntu:~# dpkg -i
virtualbox-guest-additions-iso_4.1.2-1_all.deb
...
Next to enable and install guest additions once again use
menus:
Devices -> Install Guest Additions
The screen to appear next will be similar to:
Further on follow the few dialogs to complete the installations and
integration of Guest Additions and restart the Virtual machine and
hooray the
Windows will appear in Full screen in VirtualBox
! ;)