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I just installed Linux Mint as my host OS and used VirtualBox to install a virtual copy of Win XP SP2 just for those programs I need Windows for. Everything is working fine, but I have one question. Is there a way to change the default display adapter so the windows screen can fill up my monitor? Will it recognize my graphic card, which is an ATI Radeon HD 3600, or am I stuck with the defauylt?
You can either use the open source 'radeon' driver or the closed source 'fglrx' driver. radeon has been 2D performance, fglrx has better 3D performance. What exactly do you mean that the windows screen doesn't fill up your monitor? If the resolution is not correct, check 'xrandr' for a list of supported resolutions. If your monitors native resolution isn't listed, check /var/log/Xorg.0.log to make sure that you are using one of those two drivers I mentioned ('radeon' should be used by default).
I am not sure but if I read adam correct then he has what you are doing backwards. But With virtualbox you set the resolution of your virtual computer within the guest OS, It will not see your radeon, but you will get full screen and better graphic performance if you install the guest additions for VirtualBox.
Ahhh... See when he said "so the windows screen can fill up my monitor" I took that to mean windows not Windows :-) I thought he meant that X windows wasn't filling up his monitor :-) It wasn't till I read your post that I see he probably meant he wanted a better resolution for the Windows guest.
But, yeah, with the guest additions you can get the Windows guest to resize automatically to fit the virtualbox window and even go fullscreen. With the guest additions you can even get OpenGL acceleration in the Windows guest, but in that case you really want to be using the fglrx driver on the Linux Mint host.
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