Comments on: Fix VirtualBox macOS High Sierra Screen Resolution (1920×1080 – 4K – 5K)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:52:19 +0000

Thank you very much, really appreciate how simple you made it!

By: Alex T

Alex T — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:03:16 +0000

Thanks for all the information you shared, it worked for me as follows:

0. Close all VirtualBOx windows.

1. Open cmd in the normal “NOT administrator” mode.
If you use windows 11, press the keys: windows + x and open “Windows Terminal”, the POWERSHELL will open by default.
Press ctrl + shift + 2 or go to the arrow on the toolbar to run the cmd command.

2. Copy this text and hit enter:
cd “C: \ Program Files \ Oracle \ Virtualbox”

3. Copy this text and hit enter:
VBoxManage list vms

4. You will get something like this:
“Sierra” {944b5667-8827-4591-8c2d-46bb421aae86}

5. Copy the name of your virtual machine (including quotes, in this case it is “Sierra”) and replace by “VM Name Here” and Where it says “HxV” put your screen resolution.
VBoxManage setextradata “VM Name Here” VBoxInternal2 / EfiGraphicsResolution HxV
IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS FOR EXAMPLE:
VBoxManage setextradata “Sierra” VBoxInternal2 / EfiGraphicsResolution 2560×1440

WHY COPY from CMD AND NOT WRITE? = I think I had text differences between cmd and notepad, it sent me an error in the cmd when I wrote the name of my virtual machine. This is how it worked for me.

6. Copy all that edited text in the CMD and hit enter.

7. If everything goes well, the text of the item “number 2” should appear.
Close the cmd and start your VirtualBox, by default the MacOS will change to the new resolution.

Tested on Windows 11 21H2 (OS 22000.258), VirtualBox v6.1.26, MacOS Sierra 10.12.6.

By: William

William — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:50:58 +0000

The first (recommended) method worked for me! Very happy! Thanks so much!

By: Lavender

Lavender — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 19:56:36 +0000

Nothing I try seems to work for me. I am stuck with the default resolution.

By: James Daniels

James Daniels — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 20:59:30 +0000

Thanks, worked for me. I am using 1280×720. Much better than 1024×768

By: Mukhtar Jafari

Mukhtar Jafari — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 04:01:44 +0000

In reply to Scootros Hootros. That's because you might have installed VBox on different location.

By: Scootros Hootros

Scootros Hootros — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 23:51:56 +0000

There’s no VitualBox directory under “c:\Program Files\Oracle”, in version 6.0 of VirtualBox.

By: Mukhtar Jafari

Mukhtar Jafari — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 05:20:55 +0000

In reply to Anatoly Ignatenko. Thank you for your feedback

By: Anatoly Ignatenko

Anatoly Ignatenko — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 20:46:14 +0000

Worked fine. Thanks a lot.

By: jean

jean — Thu, 16 May 2019 15:13:45 +0000

In reply to Tits. YES !! This worked like a charm for me, thanks :))

By: Mukhtar Jafari

Mukhtar Jafari — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:26:34 +0000

In reply to Jav. Thank you for sharing your positive feedback with us.

By: Jav

Jav — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 14:11:40 +0000

Thanks a lot. Excellent problem resolution.

Regards.

By: Rosen

Rosen — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 07:49:48 +0000

it worked before but now it wont work help please!

By: Ramiro

Ramiro — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:59:33 +0000

In reply to Chris.

Hi Faiz
Thank you very much for your useful article.
Host: Ubuntu 16.04.5
Guest: Mac OS X Sierra 10.12
VM: VirtualBox
Display: 24″ 1920×1080
I successfully tested 1440×900 and 1600×900. I keep 1600×900. Since my display has 1920×1080 resolution I did not test it because I do not want to use both the horizontal and vertical scroll bars as I observed in your picture of Step 8.
Thanks a lot Faiz.