How to increase the video memory to 256mb in VirtualBox?

The maximum amount of video memory that can be allocated from the VirtualBox GUI is 128mb.

Ubuntu Max Video Memory

The video memory can be increased further to 256mb from the command line prompt.

Open the command prompt and navigate to your VirtualBox installation location.  Usually the default installation location is C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox

Then type the following command with your own VM name:

VBoxManage modifyvm "Virtual machine name" --vram 256

Once the command is entered successfully you should see the following in the VM GUI.

Ubuntu Increaded VIdeo Memory to 256mb