Monday 30 January 2012

VirtualBox in full screen on second monitor

I've been having real problems with this, and it turns out that the solution is really simple!

When you try to run a guest OS full screen, goes to the first monitor, so the menu bars etc. for Ubuntu are hidden.  To make it full screen on the second monitor:
  1. Enter full screen with the guest OS
  2. Hover over the VirtualBox hidden menu at the bottom of the guest OS
  3. Click View | Virtual Screen 1 | Use Host Screen 2
This will make the guest OS show up in the second monitor when using full screen mode.  Works with Ubuntu 10.04 host and Windows 7 guest.

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