Virtualbox window too small

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The last step was to go into “Disk Management”, right click on the partitioned part of the drive, and select “Extend Volume” to add all the new space. VBoxManage clonemedium -existingĪfter that completed successfully, I went back into the settings of my v virtualbox, removed the old hard drive, and changed the new one to SATA Port 0

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This runs fine, seems to update, but still, I have a small window for a screen. > apt-get install -y virutalbox-guest-x11. So Ive tried other instruction sets: > apt-get update. 'Unable to insert the virtual optical disk X into the machine Y.' Fine, that seems to happen every single time I do this. Today when I started up VirtualBox and started the VM, it didnt resize to fit my display. First, trying to install through the menu fails. I created a new virtual disk (dynamic) at the size I wanted – 80gb. I am running Ubuntu 16.04, and have an Ubuntu 16.04 VM running in VirtualBox.

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VBoxManage: error: Resize medium operation for this format is not implemented yet! Had I chosen VDI or VHD, I could have used the “VBoxManage modifyhd” command, but that was a no go. Even when I go full screen, the window stays the same size and the rest of the screen is filled with gray space. I have the virtual machine instance running with Windows 7 now installed, but it only fills up a small portion of my screen. I chose the “.vmdk” format, which isn’t so straight forward to expand. I am new to VirtualBox and am trying to set up an instance of Windows 7 64. I have a windows development box that I allocated 40gb to as a dynamic virtual disk. I don’t allocate enough drive space that my virtualbox will need.