Getting a larger virtual monitor with a Mac hosted VirtualBox and Ubuntu guest

Ubuntu with 1024x768 screen in VirtualBox
Now that's a respectable 1024x764 Ubuntu view in VirtualBox on my MacBook.

I use VirtualBox on my Mac for “other” operating systems.

I was recently creating a new Ubuntu guest OS for doing some work with PostgreSQL on Linux. I like a GUI, so I was using pgAdmin. Normally I don’t care if the window is 800×600, but when I started using pgAdmin, I couldn’t see all of the window.

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