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Arun
Arun

Reputation: 1679

Change window size on virtual box after installing debian Jesse

I installed Debian-jesse on Virtualbox. However, the max screen size is 1024 x 768. I have a larger monitor that can have a larger window size. Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can increase that? If I drag the window edge, a white band comes around the Debian window, but I can't use it. I installed dkms as suggested by other threads, but that doesn't fix it.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 250

Answers (1)

Johannes Ranke
Johannes Ranke

Reputation: 469

You need to have the contrib section in your apt sources in your jessie guest system. You might need to add contrib to the respective line in your /etc/apt/sources.list, like so

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib

Then, as root, run

apt update
apt install virtualbox-guest-x11

and reboot the guest system (restarting its X server may also suffice).

If you have manually configured your X server in the guest system, an idea would be to move /etc/X11/xorg.conf out of the way, if it exists. Or, more bluntly, to purge xserver-xorg, reinstall, and then reinstall the guest additions.

Upvotes: 1

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