An even better solution, in my opinion, is to configure the VM so that you can connect to it directly from the host machine using Secure Shell (“SSH”), giving you full control over the window and text size of the guest VM.
One work-around that seems to work fairly well is to switch the VM window to “scale mode” (View->Switch to Scale Mode or Host+C), resulting in what is essentially a magnified version of the window and its contents. However, getting Guest Additions to install and run properly on command-line-based guest VMs is a monumental pain in the ass. Normally the fix for this, of course, would be to install what VirtualBox calls “ Guest Additions,” which consists of device drivers and other applications that optimize the guest operating system for, among other things, the ability to enlarge the window size. Those of you who have performed a similar excercise know that the default window size that VirtualBox provides to command-line-based VMs, like *BSD and Ubuntu server, etc., is rather small, somewhere in neighborhood of the standard VGA resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. Recently I had the occasion to spin up a Ubuntu server Virtual Machine (“VM”) in VirtualBox on a Windows-based host machine. (20180430 - The steps in this post were amended to address changes in recent versions of software - iceflatline)
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