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I've been using VirtualBox on a Windows 7 host for school for several weeks now. Suddenly today, my Ubuntu box locked up - I shut it down and rebooted, and now my screen isn't resizing as it should. Also, the "Auto Resize Guest-Display" option is greyed out.



I've tried reinstalling the guest additions, but this didn't solve anything. I have the display maximum resolution under Preferences->Display set to none.



I've tried the steps in this similar posting: http://www.blackmoreops.com/2014/01/18/fix-could-not-apply-stored-configuration-to-monitors-error-line-1-char-1-document-empty-contained-whitespace-error/



I'm a bit at a loss of what to try now. I can't work like this. The screen size is either very small, or super stretched.



Edit: What's even more strange is that I imported a backup of this VM that I had saved last night, and it's the same issue. I can all of a sudden not resize my VM window.










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  • Did you ever find a resolution to this?

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  • possible duplicate askubuntu.com/questions/1088850/…

    – ajcg
    Nov 23 '18 at 23:28
















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I've been using VirtualBox on a Windows 7 host for school for several weeks now. Suddenly today, my Ubuntu box locked up - I shut it down and rebooted, and now my screen isn't resizing as it should. Also, the "Auto Resize Guest-Display" option is greyed out.



I've tried reinstalling the guest additions, but this didn't solve anything. I have the display maximum resolution under Preferences->Display set to none.



I've tried the steps in this similar posting: http://www.blackmoreops.com/2014/01/18/fix-could-not-apply-stored-configuration-to-monitors-error-line-1-char-1-document-empty-contained-whitespace-error/



I'm a bit at a loss of what to try now. I can't work like this. The screen size is either very small, or super stretched.



Edit: What's even more strange is that I imported a backup of this VM that I had saved last night, and it's the same issue. I can all of a sudden not resize my VM window.










share|improve this question

























  • Did you ever find a resolution to this?

    – T.J. Crowder
    Aug 11 '14 at 12:42











  • possible duplicate askubuntu.com/questions/1088850/…

    – ajcg
    Nov 23 '18 at 23:28














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I've been using VirtualBox on a Windows 7 host for school for several weeks now. Suddenly today, my Ubuntu box locked up - I shut it down and rebooted, and now my screen isn't resizing as it should. Also, the "Auto Resize Guest-Display" option is greyed out.



I've tried reinstalling the guest additions, but this didn't solve anything. I have the display maximum resolution under Preferences->Display set to none.



I've tried the steps in this similar posting: http://www.blackmoreops.com/2014/01/18/fix-could-not-apply-stored-configuration-to-monitors-error-line-1-char-1-document-empty-contained-whitespace-error/



I'm a bit at a loss of what to try now. I can't work like this. The screen size is either very small, or super stretched.



Edit: What's even more strange is that I imported a backup of this VM that I had saved last night, and it's the same issue. I can all of a sudden not resize my VM window.










share|improve this question
















I've been using VirtualBox on a Windows 7 host for school for several weeks now. Suddenly today, my Ubuntu box locked up - I shut it down and rebooted, and now my screen isn't resizing as it should. Also, the "Auto Resize Guest-Display" option is greyed out.



I've tried reinstalling the guest additions, but this didn't solve anything. I have the display maximum resolution under Preferences->Display set to none.



I've tried the steps in this similar posting: http://www.blackmoreops.com/2014/01/18/fix-could-not-apply-stored-configuration-to-monitors-error-line-1-char-1-document-empty-contained-whitespace-error/



I'm a bit at a loss of what to try now. I can't work like this. The screen size is either very small, or super stretched.



Edit: What's even more strange is that I imported a backup of this VM that I had saved last night, and it's the same issue. I can all of a sudden not resize my VM window.







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  • Did you ever find a resolution to this?

    – T.J. Crowder
    Aug 11 '14 at 12:42











  • possible duplicate askubuntu.com/questions/1088850/…

    – ajcg
    Nov 23 '18 at 23:28



















  • Did you ever find a resolution to this?

    – T.J. Crowder
    Aug 11 '14 at 12:42











  • possible duplicate askubuntu.com/questions/1088850/…

    – ajcg
    Nov 23 '18 at 23:28

















Did you ever find a resolution to this?

– T.J. Crowder
Aug 11 '14 at 12:42





Did you ever find a resolution to this?

– T.J. Crowder
Aug 11 '14 at 12:42













possible duplicate askubuntu.com/questions/1088850/…

– ajcg
Nov 23 '18 at 23:28





possible duplicate askubuntu.com/questions/1088850/…

– ajcg
Nov 23 '18 at 23:28










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Same problem here. The problem was that I accidentally pressed fn+f4 - the combination for changing external displays in my laptop.
In my case pressing fn+f4 (or any other combination like win+p) a few times solved the problem






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    Same problem here. The problem was that I accidentally pressed fn+f4 - the combination for changing external displays in my laptop.
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      Same problem here. The problem was that I accidentally pressed fn+f4 - the combination for changing external displays in my laptop.
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        Same problem here. The problem was that I accidentally pressed fn+f4 - the combination for changing external displays in my laptop.
        In my case pressing fn+f4 (or any other combination like win+p) a few times solved the problem






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        Same problem here. The problem was that I accidentally pressed fn+f4 - the combination for changing external displays in my laptop.
        In my case pressing fn+f4 (or any other combination like win+p) a few times solved the problem







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