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Unable to maximise Full-screen with proper quality on VM

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I recently installed ubuntu on a Virtual Machine on Windows. It works perfectly fine, except that I can only use it in the minimized version. Several attempts to resolve this issue have been made by myself:

Host+F just shows me the exact same screen surrounded by black screen.

On ask ubuntu the following advise was given: Can't get fullscreen resolution on Ubuntu hosted on VirtualBox

I was considering the advise from the community yet there have been the following issues The option Auto-resize guest display is disabled and I couldn't find out how to fix it. Also under Settings for display most of the icons were disabled. The only thing left to adjust was the scale factor. I configured it to be 150% instead of 100%. Now the screen is bigger but blurred.

The following source provided different information on how to solve this problem.

https://ma.ttias.be/auto-resize-screen-size-windows-10-guest-vms-virtualbox/

Nevertheless, when click "Insert guest additions CD image" the following Error Message appears:

Error Message: Insert guest additions CD image

Edit: Error Message with details

If somebody could find out, why I can't use most of the icons in this OS or give me a different advise on the topic respectively the aforementioned error message I would be very grateful.

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For that last error message, can you click the “Details” option? Error messages on Windows are almost criminally opaque, so every little bit of detail helps …
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Sure, already done!
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Silly question, but is the Ubuntu `.iso` file still appearing as “inserted” in VirtualBox? If so, you’ll need to eject/remove it before the guest additions can be used.
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I am new to ubuntu but I assume it is under Files > VBox_GAs_6.1.26 ?
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If not, it would be helpful if you could describe the location where I can find it
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This would be in the Windows part of VirtualBox. In the menu: Devices ⇢ Optical Drives ⇢ Remove Disk from Virtual Drive
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Thanks a lot! Now I could auto-resize the display with proper resolution!
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You can change the resolution in your vm ubuntu.

From

settings -> Displays -> Resolution

See this image

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