Daniel 'MaTachi' Jonsson

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Connect a VirtualBox Virtual Machine to the Local Network as a Regular Computer

To make a virtual machine in VirtualBox appear as a regular computer in the LAN:

  1. Open VirtualBox Manager.
  2. Right click on one of the machines that you have set up and click on Settings.
  3. Click on Network in the left sidebar.
  4. Set Attached to: to Bridged Adapter.

When you now start up the machine it should appear in the router as an additional connected computer.

Change screen resolution in Ubuntu + VirtualBox

Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 10.04 in Windows 7 with VirtualBox, and it works great. But the problem I faced was that I could only pick 2 different screeen resolutions; 640×480 and 800×600.

This problem was easily solved by doing these steps:

  1. Start Ubuntu in VirtualBox.
  2. In the new window, open the Devices-menu and pick Install guest additions…
  3. A CD-icon should now pop up on the desktop in Ubuntu – double click it.
  4. Finish the installation.
  5. Maybe restart Ubuntu.
  6. Done! Now you can resize the Ubuntu window to whatever you want, and it will reconfigure itself. Just drag the border of the window.