For the impatient or inattentive: the Debian installer currently detects when it’s executing in a VirtualBox guest VM and installs the guest additions for you during setup. If you think that your installation is bad for some reason, install the virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 package and you’re all set. So, you want to run Debian in VirtualBox at a screen resolution higher than 800×600. Admittedly, this is not a complicated problem to solve, which is precisely why this post is so short. But first, note that Beastie is eating a striped apple in the image to the left and his tail is actually a Debian logo. This is not important and has virtually nothing to do with this post — I just think it’s funny. About the environment Pretty straightforward. Host [...]