How to enable the full screen mode for Kali Linux on Hyper-V virtual machine

Question

I have successfully installed Kali Linux on Hyper-V. The problem is that the OS doesn't take the whole screen. It takes only part of it. How to make Kali Linux run on full screen (physical)?

Solution 1

In /etc/default/grub change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet” to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash video=hyperv_fb:your_resolution″ for me it was GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash video=hyperv_fb:1920×1080″. Save file then run sudo update-grub and restart.

Solution 2

If this doesn't work on Hyper-v (You will see this message briefly on during boot process "hyperv_fb screen option is invalid"

Run the following command in Powershell as administrator on Windows host:

*set-vmvideo -vmname <NameOfVM> -horizontalresolution:2560  -verticalresolution:1440 -resolutiontype single*

Comments

[Rui F Ribeiro]

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[Amel]

This is THE answer! Changing /etc/default/grub doesn't help on Kali-2021.3, but set-vmvideo -vmname NameOfVM -horizontalresolution:1920 -verticalresolution:1200 -resolutiontype single does