Its X that handles the mouse and guestAdditions adds a better driver
to work with xorg. No X, no driver...

On 10/11/10, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
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