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JerryI
March 18th, 2009, 03:02 AM
I have VirtualBox running XP in Hardy, and I am favorably impressed. Is there a way to get a full-screen view? The XP screen window is about half the height and half the width of my monitor.

Clarification. I clicked on view full size, or whatever, but the same size (small) window appeared centered across my dual monitors. What I want is an image that takes up a whole monitor, not one that takes up one eighth of the area of my two combined monitors.

HankB
March 18th, 2009, 07:44 AM
Hi JerryI,
I use the <host key>F (in my case and default <right ctrl>F) to toggle between full screen and windowed for the VirtualBox guest. This is using VirtualBox 2.1.4 from Sun (not the OSE version.) I think you also need to install the VirtualBox guest additions for your guest OS to make this work.

I'm running Vista Home Basic but I suppose this should work with XP as well.

-hank