On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Craig McLean <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > I've just installed Virtual Box on my Windows 7 system for the first time. > I've also installed Ubuntu 10.10 Server 64bit edition. The Guest Additions > package installed without any trouble. however I notice the "seemless" > feature still doesn't work. Whenever I click into the window containing the > guest my mouse still gets captured and I need to use the right-ctrl key to > get the mouse pointer back. I was hoping that installing the guest > additions would make the guest window behave like any other window, much > like what happens when you install guest additions on a guest that has a > gui. > > In order to troubleshoot I installed xserver-xorg and xserver-xorg-core, so > the X related parts of the Guest Additions would also compile and install > properly. That didn't make a difference. > > Is it just the nature of Virtual Box that you need some kind of running gui > for the seemless feature to work?
IIRC this is also the case with VMWare Workstation/Player. The only time I have had the "seemless" feature work for me is when I am running X (Xorg) on the client/guest. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
