This morning, when I booted up my guest system, the screen was stuck in 640x480 resolution. I re-installed the guest additions, and saw the error: "Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed. Not installing X Window System drivers." I searched the forum, and found the most common solution was upgrading VirtualBox, so I installed the latest version (5.0.0) and tried again, with the same effect.
Here is what I'm getting when installing the guest additions:
The suggested vboxadd-install-x11.log was less than helpful:Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.0.0 Guest Additions for Linux............
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 5.0.0 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Stopping VirtualBox Additions ...fail!
(Cannot unload module vboxguest)
Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...done.
Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules ...done.
Copying additional installer modules ...
add_symlink: link file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/VBoxGuestAdditions already exists
add_symlink: link file /usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions already exists
add_symlink: link file /usr/share/VBoxGuestAdditions already exists
Installing additional modules ...
Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...done.
Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules ...done.
Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules ...done.
Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions ...done.
You should restart your guest to make sure the new modules are actually used
Installing the Window System drivers
Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed. Not installing
X Window System drivers.
...done.
Installing graphics libraries and desktop services components ...fail!
(See the log file /var/log/vboxadd-install-x11.log for more information.)
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What sort-of works is "sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-x11", which apparently installs the 4.3 guest addition version, which allows full resolution, but doesn't provide 3d acceleration, so it is barely usable.VirtualBox Guest Additions installation, Window System and desktop setup
install_x11_startup_app: no script given
Is this simply a matter of waiting for a newer version of VirtualBox that includes scripts for the latest version of X?