exit virtualbox full screen mode windows

I thought maybe there was an issue with my laptop or the VirtualBox Manager software (each time hoping a new version would fix my issue). I have also tried enabling EFI in System/Motherboard, but that got me booted to some shell where I didn’t know what to do and typing “exit” got me to a bios-like window where I looked around, but didn’t see anything that would make a difference and wasn’t even able to then properly exit. I have also tried to reinstall guest additions numerous times (w/o uninstalling first). “Seamless Mode” and “Auto-resize Guest Display” are both grayed out in the “View” menu, as are all other resolutions under the Virtual Screen 1 menu item. I have also tried using the command line to set custom resolution (vboxmanage setextradata 'VM machine name' 'CustomVideoMode1' '1920x1080x32'), have tried full screen, scaled mode, resizing the window manually. I have tried all kinds of combinations of the VM settings (different paravirtualization interfaces, enable/disable: nested paging, PAE/NX, 3D acceleration, different base and video memory size), as well as different preferences in VM VirtualBox Manager for display: automatic, none, hint (with all kinds of options).

I’m using VBoxSVGA as graphics controller. I’m using VirtualBox VM 6.1.32 r149290 win.amd64, with Guest Additions installed and with the latest Extension Pack. My host is Windows 10 (64-bit), my guest is Windows 10 Pro (64-bit). Also, the aspect ratio is not the 16:9 I need. The only choices I get are either really small, or too large (vertically), so that I have to scroll up/down to view the whole screen. In short, I’m am unable to get my VM to run in the correct resolution, which is 1920 x 1080 for my laptop (standard Intel CPU / chipset). I have tried all of them, but none solved my issue, so I would like to ask this again. Hi – over the past 2.5 years I have seen a lot of different threads and read hundreds of replies and watched countless YouTube videos on solutions how to enable full-screen resolution.

Exit virtualbox full screen mode windows