[svlug] Virtualbox window too small

[Christian Einfeldt]

hi,

Thanks to everyone who helped install the virtual machine on the two small
boxes owned by our favorite public middle school.  So far, the vm seems to
be working fine, except that the window created by the vm under VirtualBox
1.5.2 is too small.  In other words, the screen for the Microsoft Windows vm
is limited in size.  It occupies only about three-fourths of the available
screen area.

I have tried to maximize the screen size by hitting F11, both when the mouse
and keyboard are captured by the vm (meaning that all input is directed
within the vm window) and when the mouse and keyboard are NOT captured by
the vm.

I am concerned that the teachers might want to partition the hd and use a
dual boot solution because the screen is to small.  That would be highly
undesireable, IMHO, because it would mean that the teachers and students
will default to staying with Windows only.  If Linux is running Microsoft
Windows inside a vm, the teachers and students will be more like to use the
Linux side more frequently than under a dual boot situation, since dual
booting is so slow, particularly where Windows is involved.

Thanks again to you all for helping us take one step closer to moving this
school completely off of Microsoft Windows.
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