Arch Guest on Virtualbox Flickering Windows when Dragged

[w201]

Greetings- I have a fresh install of Arch with the e17 DE, the problem I've been noticing is that when I drag windows they flicker and resize sparatically while I'm dragging but they're fine when I let go of the mouse.

Under settings I have 3D enabled and I loaded the guest additions pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utils . Not sure what else I have to do.

Some specs:
running virtual box 4.1.12 on linux mint host
M5A97 mobo
AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor
Radeon HD 6450 GPU

Any help appreciated.

[Twisted Lucidity]

Those are the wrong guest additions.
Remove them and use VBox to load the Guest Additions .iso that came with it.
Then, in the guest, Navigate to the CD and run the install script.
Make sure you have satisfied all dependencies first (e.g. dkms).

All the details are in the documentation.

I've had Arch and KDE working without major issues under VBox in the past; so I know it's possible.

Also, where did you get your copy of VirtualBox from? Did you download it from this site or from Mint's repositories?
If from Mint, I strongly suggest you remove that and install from the download area as the volunteers here have no way of knowing what the package maintainer for your OS may have done.

[w201]

Thanks for the reply man. The arch wiki instructs you to load the guest additions from the AUR and not through VBox.

I just wanted to mention that but if you say it's safe to load through VBox, I'll try that. And I installed VBox from the mint repositories. If I don't get the guest additions working properly I guess eventually I'll get around to reinstalling from the link you provided.

***EDIT***

I tried installing guest additions I get this:

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Unable to unmount the CD/DVD image /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso from the machine Arch-64 Clone. Would you like to force unmounting of this medium?
Could not unmount the currently mounted media/drive (VERR_PDM_MEDIA_LOCKED).

[Twisted Lucidity]

Wherever you got your instance of VBox from, use the guest ISO that came with it. That way you can be sure the versions match.

That "force unmount" thing happens a lot on some distros (no idea why). Eject from within the guest first maybe? I've just forced the unmount, never noticed any issues.

Remember, it's a VM so just create a snapshot if it contains anything important and that way you can easily revert to a working state.