Hello. I dug into it and found that to be true. The seemless feature needs X or some kind of GUI running. The same problem exists for DOS and Netware based guests as well.
After putting some thought into it I realized that I can just ssh into the guest, I'm only using the Console CLI so there is no loss of experience. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Johnson Sent: October-11-10 7:16 PM To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Virtual Box and Console Only Guests 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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
