[virt-tools-list] Windows 7 VM doesn't go full screen

Marc-André Lureau mlureau at redhat.com
Wed Apr 22 12:17:14 UTC 2015


Hi

----- Original Message -----
> I'm currently using Mint but will go back to Ubuntu once I find the time.
> I've got Windows 7 in a VM, but I can never get it to be full screen. What
> can I do about this? I've tried a few things I found, like changing VM
> resolution or using VMVGA instead of VGA, to no avail. What else can I do?

How did you setup your VM? The easier is to use Boxes or virt-manager.
To get desktop resize to work, you'll need to have a QXL video device, and spice-guest-tools installed in the guest (this is done automatically by Boxes)

cheers 




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