I have tried all alternatives and resources that I found on internet to achieve to change screen resolution in my MacOS X guest. I have the latest VirtualBox version (4.1.22) and I have MacOS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard running in a vm guest. ![]() A tutorial on how to change the screen resolution in virtualbox when running mac os x mountain lion on a windows pc or laptop. EFI provides two distinct video interfaces: GOP (Graphics Output Protocol) and UGA (Universal Graphics Adapter). Mac OS X uses GOP, while Linux tends to use UGA. VirtualBox provides a configuration option to control the framebuffer size for both interfaces. To control GOP, use the following VBoxManage command: VBoxManage setextradata 'VM name' VBoxInternal2/EfiGopMode N Where N can be one of 0,1,2,3,4 referring to the 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1440x900 screen resolution respectively. The video mode for both GOP and UGA can only be changed when the VM is powered off and remains persistent until changed. Free photo id card software for mac. I've found through experimentation that if you use N = 5 you can also get a resolution of 1920x1200. Volunteer Posts: 910 Joined: 3. Mar 2009, 00:29 Location: Between Heaven and Hell Primary OS: Mac OS X other VBox Version: PUEL Guest OSses: Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows XP SP3, Windows 7. Just in case anyone else has issue's i have also found the following to work: open Finder and go to the OS X drive on the left. Open the folder called Extras. Right Click on the file com.Apple.Boot.plist and open it with TextEdit. Code: Graphics Mode 1920x1080x32 Select 'Save As' at the top and save it to the desktop, un-checking the tick box under Unicode and then save it as com.apple.boot.plist. After that drag and drop it into the extras folder and overwrite the original file, entering your password set up during account creation. ![]() Once you have done this close down your Virtual Machine. Then in normal windows using your search option, load CMD. To start with type the following: cd 'C: Program Files Oracle Virtualbox' Once you have done this types the following: vboxmanage setextradata 'Name of virtual machine' 'CustomVideoMode1' '1920x1080x32' and press enter. The sizes here you will need to set as you screen resolution. You can usually find out by right clicking on your desktop and selecting Screen Resolution or Options. Replace '1920x1080x32' with whatever resolution you're using. This worked perfectly fine for me. Posts: 4 Joined: 22. Sep 2013, 16:15.
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