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Q Small screen VM
I’ve been running Ubuntu and Linux Mint happily in VirtualBox for years. A couple of weeks ago, I purchased a PowerSpec G902 gaming PC. I haven’t been able to run Ubuntu 20.04 LTS full screen within Hyper-V. The choice of 2560x1440 screen resolution is never an option. I’m at my wits’ end. I don’t know if it has anything to do with the fact that this PC has a dedicated GPU (Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080), not an APU?
Henry Adams
A This may simply be a case of not allocating enough video memory to handle this size of display. Go into the Display section of the settings and make sure the Graphics Controller is set to VMSVGA, then crank up the Video Memory setting to at least 64MB, although playing safe with 128MB while trying to get it to work would be better. In addition, disable 3D acceleration – at least while getting things to work – because this has been known to cause problems.
If that doesn’t work, you may need to set up the mode within the guest OS using , which is the command line program to generate a suitable modeline:
