[jamiepenney]

What are you using to run the VM? I've always had issues integrating the host and guest VM nicely in Windows - getting copy-paste working properly, resizing the window, etc.

[vetinari]

Both Vmware and VirtualBox work great - if you install the guest tools.

For some extra polish when running Linux VMs under VirtualBox on Windows, set the virtualisation mode to kvm and use virtio network device.