Screen Resolution only displaying 800x600 in xubunutu

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Published on 2010-05-08T21:53:24Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 3:09 UTC
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I am running Sun Virtual box in a windows 7 64 bit machine.

I have installed xubuntu 10.4 as a virtual machine, however I cannot seem to find an easy way of altering the screen resolution.

I have looked around at forums however cannot seem to find an answer.

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