Don't know how this forum views 'piggybacking' on other's posts, on the LM forum it is frowned upon, so ask for forgiveness in advance
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Scenario - run win7 as a guest under linux mint, current LM20.2 Cinnamon. Preferred mode of operation = seamless and it works flawlessly. Can I still get an upgrade to win10 for free? Yes you can.
Clone the win7 VM in VB and update. Works, I now have a win10 VM.
Win not going full screen, find I have to re-install guest additions. Now get full screen. Try seamless mode. It toggles between showing seamless as*:
https://i.imgur.com/VxYYL9x.jpg
or non seamless mode as:
https://i.imgur.com/K6RxRSq.jpg
Seems it is failing to set the win10 desktop transparent. For comparison, this is win7 in seamless mode, showing my LM desktop as normal:
https://i.imgur.com/womAoeT.png
Also found that initially the win menu background was transparent - difficult to get at the shutdown commands and had to Alt+F4, turned off 3D accelaration in VB settings and that fixed the problem. Also told VB that it was win10 not win7 in setting > general > basic (didn't seem to make any difference).
Virtualbox: 6.1.26 r145957 - Qt5.12.8
guest additions: 6.1.26
extension pack: 6.1.26 r145957
Graphics controller: VBoxSVGA
Have also attached the log file if it helps.
Base hardware is a Thinkpad T430, i7-3632, 16GB RAM with 8GB allocated to the win10 VM and an external 2560x1080 monitor.
'Proper' seamless mode would be nice.
* sorry tried the img tags and failed.
