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In some or most cases when you start the guest OS/VM OS, you will have a lesser resolution than your host OS or what your GPU display allows. To solve this issue AFTER the installation, you can do this with the bootloader. Since I use Grub mostly, this solution is Grub centric, but there should be similar solutions in other bootloaders.

When you start the VM and Grub2 menu shows, press ctrl+c to enter the console. Use these two lines to gather info about your resolution options.

grub> set pager=1
grub> vbeinfo

Note down a resolution you want to use. It would be a good idea to NOT choose the max resolution, but rather something close to the max resolution.

Edit your /etc/default/grub file

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset"
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1600x900

Then run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg to make the change effective.

* Originally started by zeebra