


The second command defines a custom video mode for the specific virtual machine with name "Machine Name".įinally, the third command sets this custom video mode for your virtual machine. The first command unlocks all possible display resolutions for virtual machines. VBoxManage controlvm "Machine Name" setvideomodehint Width Height Bpp

VBoxManage setextradata "Machine Name" "CustomVideoMode1" "Width x Height x Bpp" You need to execute the following commands: VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/MaxGuestResolution any Our readers might be familiar with this tool from the article How to resize a VirtualBox HDD image (VDI). To bypass this limitation, you need to use the VBoxManage tool, which is a console application to tweak virtual machines on the fly and offline. As you can see, it is not listed in available display modes in my setup: Let's say I want to set the display resolution in my Windows 10 VM to 1366x768.
