How to Enable Full-Screen Display for Kali Linux on Hyper-V

A few days ago, I decided to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11, and instead of using the Home edition, I went ahead and paid to upgrade to the Pro version. Why? Because I wanted to see what the Hyper-V virtual machine management system is all about. Hyper-V has been fantastic for me at the moment. There doesn’t seem to be much lag, and connectivity works great. However, I was presented with one annoying issue: one of my Linux distros, namely Kali Linux, was stuck on a small screen resolution that didn’t seem to want to fix itself. The Initial Problem Getting Kali Linux to be fullscreen was initially difficult due to the unfortunate fact that there seemed to be limited resources on fixing this matter. Show in the picture above was the actual size of my screen and it made using a lot of the tools difficult with a screen at that size. Step 1: Installing and Using xrandr The first step I took was to install xrandr. You can think of xrandr as a command-line utility that…

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