A Mind Lost

I wanted to take a quick look at Ubuntu 10.04 so I downloaded the latest VirtualBox VM software and grabbed the Ubuntu ISO so that I could just run a test on my local PC inside a virtual machine so I could play with it while doing other things.  I haven’t used VirtualBox for a while and while the guest OS install went fine, I couldn’t get the screen resolution to increase so my Ubuntu desktop was fixed at 640 x 480, even in full screen mode.  It turns out the additional functionality is available through installing Guest Additions.  I’m not going to go into the details of how to do it because there’s several straight-forward How-To’s on the web, for example here.