Switch android x86 screen resolution

Question

I would like to use Android-x86 2.2 as an emulator on my Windows 7. I have downloaded VirtualBox and the ISO, and I've made a virtual machine with it, but I can't set the resolution to 320x480 or something similar.

The following tutorial "Using the Android-x86 Port as your Emulator" suggests to insert:

<ExtraDataItem name="CustomVideoMode2" value="320x480x16" />

to my .vbox file and I did it. Then I added UVESA_MODE=320x480 and vga=ask to the boot config. When it boots, I have to press Enter to see the available options, but there is no 320x480 among them. How can I get it to work?

Answer 1

In VirtualBox you should add custom resolution via the command:

VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" "CustomVideoMode1" "800x480x16"

instead of editing a .vbox file.

This solution works fine for me!