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Seamless mode problems after recent Linux kernel update

Posted: 28. Nov 2008, 18:40
by dogword
Hello,

after my regular Ubuntu 8.10 update today I observed that VirtualBox doesn't perform seamless mode and automatic mouse capture anymore after the Linux kernel has been updated.

All I can do is switch to fullscreen mode, in which I do not get an entire full screen but a 1152x864 field surrounded by black borders.
Is this due to the kernel update or am I the only one facing this problem?

No changes have been made to the settings. So far VB ran Ubuntu smoothly in my WinXP Pro host environment.

Peter

Posted: 28. Nov 2008, 20:09
by stephanecharette
After the guest linux kernel has been updated, the guest additions have to be recompiled.

There are several ways to do this.

The easiest way to do this (for me anyway) is to re-install the guest additions.

Stéphane

Posted: 28. Nov 2008, 23:19
by dogword
Ah, yes... Reinstalling the guest additions did the trick.
Could have thought of that myself, of course... :oops:

Thanks for the swift reaction!

Peter

Posted: 3. Dec 2008, 14:55
by bob23450
dogword wrote:Ah, yes... Reinstalling the guest additions did the trick.
Could have thought of that myself, of course... :oops:

Thanks for the swift reaction!

Peter
I did it too, but after doing it the shared folders feature did not work any more. Would you be so kind to check if it happened to U 2?
Many thanks.

Posted: 3. Dec 2008, 20:26
by dogword
Sorry,

I do not have shared folders installed...

Peter

Posted: 4. Dec 2008, 10:02
by bob23450
dogword wrote:Sorry,

I do not have shared folders installed...

Peter
Never mind, thanks again.

Anyone else reading this thread can check it?

Posted: 4. Dec 2008, 19:57
by Sasquatch
On my compile machine, which runs 8.10 with only a CLI, and up to date, I have no problems accessing shared folders. Maybe another install of the GA fixes it.

Posted: 5. Dec 2008, 10:16
by bob23450
Sasquatch wrote:On my compile machine, which runs 8.10 with only a CLI, and up to date, I have no problems accessing shared folders. Maybe another install of the GA fixes it.
Well, I found I'm able to restore the shared folders functionality only after uninstalling DKMS and reinstalling GA once again. I suspect a GA installer bug on the DKMS related code.

Thank you all.
Bye

Posted: 8. Dec 2008, 18:46
by Sasquatch
bob23450 wrote:
Sasquatch wrote:On my compile machine, which runs 8.10 with only a CLI, and up to date, I have no problems accessing shared folders. Maybe another install of the GA fixes it.
Well, I found I'm able to restore the shared folders functionality only after uninstalling DKMS and reinstalling GA once again. I suspect a GA installer bug on the DKMS related code.

Thank you all.
Bye
That might be the problem indeed. IIRC, I don't have DKMS on my compiler.