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  1. 02-20-2012 #11
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    Hello Robin, and welcome to Eight Forums.

    Yes, it would be the same procedure to install the next release as well.

    http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...r-preview.html

    http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...r-preview.html
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  2. 02-20-2012 #12
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    thank you
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    You're welcome Robin. I'm glad that we could help.
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  4. 02-21-2012 #14
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    Did any of you that run Win8 in vBox get the screen resolution better than 800x600? For Ubuntu I get a full screen resolution (22" screen), but not so for Win8 although I have the extension pack and the guest additions. I also gave 3GBs (from a total 8GB RAM) to vBox. Everthing else worked fine but with such a small screen it is no fun.
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  5. 02-22-2012 #15
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    Hi WHS,

    I found the same thing, then loaded the relevant Video driver (ATI in my case) in the guest machine and it then allowed res to go to 1280.

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  6. 02-22-2012 #16
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    I tried installing my nVidia driver but it refused to install even in compatibility mode with Window 7 but my resolution can go up to 1600 X 1200 anyway with the generic driver. I have it set to 1152 X 864 for convenience when with working with the host system.
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  7. 02-22-2012 #17
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    I had trouble installing the driver too. I was able to set it to a higher resolution, but then parts of the screen diasappearted and I could not see the taskbar any more. Could that be because I have set the DPI to 125% - which was on my laptop. On my desktop where I have the DPI set to 150% I do not have that trouble with Ubuntu.

    I would try it on my desktop but Ubuntu plus Win8 is a bit heavy for my 60GB SSD. I still have 30GBs free on my SSD, but another virtual partition would stretch it.
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    I found if I set anything higher than the res I set or to a higher DPI I had to use a scroll bar in eother direction to see the whole screen so I just left it as I previously described.
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