| VM Hacks Virtualbox |

If you want to have two people work on the same PC (physically) one on the host and the other inside VirtualBox.

• You will need a USB keyboard and mouse (set to USB passthrough in VirtualBox settings)
• You may add a USB audio pass-through (if required)
• Plug a secondary monitor and set the VirtualBox VM window to full screen [ Cntrl (Host) + F ]
• You will run into an issue if you have already installed guest additions!, the mouse cursor will not be visible inside the VM. This is a bug in the guest additions setup. YOu will have to uninstall guest additions.
• Once you uninstall guest additions you lose the screen resolution auto-adjusting to the host monitor resolution. To fix this you need to hint to the VM what the virtual monitor hardware resolution should be.

The below command is executed to enforce the VM named “My VM’s Name” with a resolution of “2048x1152“

VBoxManage setextradata global GUI/MaxGuestResolution any
VBoxManage setextradata "My VM's Name" "CustomVideoMode1" "2048x1152x32"