virtualbox windows 10 display resolution

Increase the video memory to 256 megabytes by dragging the slider all the way to the right. Notice that this increases the video memory maximum limit from 128 megabytes to 256 megabytes. Now close the virtual machine by selecting Power off the machine.Ĭlick on the yellow-orange Settings gear to open the settings for the machine.Ĭheck the box next to Acceleration with the comment Enable 3D Acceleration. Scroll down in the window to Display Resolution and click the box to see other options. Press Windows Key and I at the same time in the virtual machine to see Windows Settings. Turn the machine on by clicking on the machine which is highlighted in blue on the left or the green arrow pointing to the right for start. Pick the virtual machine you want to change the resolution for. To open the command line, type cmd into the bar in the bottom left corner that says Type here to search. I will use the command line to customize the virtualbox screen resolution for a windows virtual machine. My host machine is an HP Envy x360 with AMD CPU running Windows 10 Pro and the VirtualBox guest virtual machine is running Windows 10 Pro.

There is a complicated way to use GPU passthrough to change the resolution but I have figured out a simpler way that does not require GPU passthrough. I will show how to change the resolution of the virtual machine.

For example I created a Windows virtual machine with a default screen resolution of 1024 by 768 and a maximum screen resolution on a host computer with a resolution of 1920 by 1080. Sometimes VirtualBox virtual machines do not have a resolution that matches your computer’s resolution.

Virtualbox windows 10 display resolution