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1. If you find that the virtual machine's network adapter is set to NAT, you will need to change this to Bridged Adapter. Click on the Virtual Machine in Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, then click Settings.
2. Click on Network, then in Adapter 1 change the "Attached to" dropdown option to Bridged. Click OK after this has been changed.

Increasing Video Memory

1. While the virtual machine is shut down, click on the Virtual Machine in Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, then click Settings.
2. Click on the Display tab, then increase the "Video Memory" slider to at minimum 16 MB. Click OK after this has been changed.

Changing the Graphics Controller

1. While the virtual machine is shut down, click on the Virtual Machine in Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, then click Settings.
2. Click on the Display tab, then change the Graphics Controller to VMSVGA using the dropdown menu. Click OK after this has been changed.

Notes

Changing the virtual machine console display

If you find that the Virtual Machine console screen is small, you can change this by doing the following:

1. While in the VirtualBox VM (note the name here is different to VirtualBox - which is for the manager), click on View.
2. Click on Scaled Mode. This will automatically change.

VirtualBox Documentation

If you have any trouble the VirtualBox documentation is here: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#ovf

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