Fixing VirtualBox Raspberry pi small screen resolution

First, if you do not know how to download its iso and load it in the virtualbox, please refer to tutorial at this url: https://roboticsbackend.com/install-raspbian-desktop-on-a-virtual-machine-virtualbox/

And once you have it setup and running then you will need to install virtualbox guest additions as describe here:

First mount it to the virtual OS

  • Click on Devices menu and then Insert Guest Additional CD Image
  • This will popup. Click Ok
  • Right click on VBox _GAs… and Open in Terminal
  • Execute this below command with sudo meaning you elevated yourself as privileged user.
  • sudo bash VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
  • Hit enter and wait till it complete
  • Next we need to edit /etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres
  • Execute below command
  • sudo mousepad /etc/X11/app-default/Editres
  • Next give it a desired resolution we like. in my case I gave 1000 width/height.

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