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I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on the latest VirtualBox release and I cannot change the resolution.

Here are the commands that i run:

-- in Windows 

VBoxManage setextradata "Ubuntu" "CustomVideoMode1" "1920x1080x32"

-- in Ubuntu

~$ gtf 1920 1080 32 

# 1920x1080 @ 32.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 35.20 kHz; pclk: 86.17 MHz
  Modeline "1920x1080_32.00"  86.17  1920 1992 2184 2448  1080 1081 1084 1100  -HSync +Vsync

~$ xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_32.00"  86.17  1920 1992 2184 2448  1080 1081 1084 1100  -HSync +Vsync
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default

Because this fails, xrandr --addmode does not work either. I kept searching the webs and there's a common reccurent theme with a file /etc/X11/xconf.org but this is apparently missing from my image.

Also the scroll doesn't work.

guntbert
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user130003
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    Did you install Guest Additions correctly? See also: http://askubuntu.com/questions/12578/adjusting-display-geometry-in-a-virtual-machine?rq=1 – Takkat Feb 10 '13 at 18:15
  • Takkat is quite correct. Once installed, you can resize the guest like any other window, negating the need for any complex mode switching. – IlluminAce Mar 03 '13 at 19:18

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I found that for this VM screen-resizing to work properly on Ubuntu 12.04 guest VMs, you need to have a fairly recent version of the VirtualBox guest additions. It is not enough to use the version of VirtualBox distributed in the Ubuntu package repostories. I think that you can use VBoxGuestAdditions 4.1.24 and it will work with Ubuntu 12.04 guests. You need to install the 'dkms' package, possibly also 'kernel-headers', and after that the guest additions 4.1.24 can be installed from the .iso

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