Guest additions screen problems

tiresias1 · Post by **tiresias1** » 30. Sep 2008, 15:46

I have been using a previous version of VirtualBox (can't remember the exact version number but it was maybe 1.6 or 1.7) on my Vista laptop, and decided to upgrade to the latest version.

I uninstalled the old version, and installed the new version - it seemed to detect the old settings and when it asked me what to do with the old settings I chose to SAVE them in the new format.

I was able to start and shutdown a virtual machine (which was Windows 2000 guest).

I then decided to check that the guest additions were up to date so I did Device->Install Guest Additions. It said I have an old version and offered to remove it and restart the machine - I said OK. When it restarted, the same Install Guest Additions menu did nothing at all, so I mounted the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso as a CDROM and installed them manually from the CD image within my Windows 2000 guest.

Now when I drag to resize the virtual machine's window client area the screws up as if the stride of the window is not correct, but when I release the mouse button the screen display correctly at the new size. It looks a bit messy but I could live with this.

However, when I try to shutdown the guest I get the "Windows is shutting down" message box, then the whole virtual machine window client area turns into alternating green and black vertical stripes, and I have to "Power off machine" to get the window to close.

I guess there is a problem with the display driver in the guest additions, but I never had these problems using the old version of VirtualBox.

Any ideas how to fix this problem?

Post by **Sasquatch** » 30. Sep 2008, 23:08

You can try to download and install the older GA that worked before. See the download page for the location of the older files.

tiresias1 · Post by **tiresias1** » 1. Oct 2008, 01:20

Thanks, but I can't find a section for downloading older guest additions.

I believe the guest additions are packaged together with the VirtualBox installer - at least I found them in the Program Files folder for the current VirtualBox.

How do I get hold of the older Guest Additions without having to install the older VirtualBox?

Post by **Sasquatch** » 1. Oct 2008, 11:09

Check here: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/

tiresias1 · Post by **tiresias1** » 1. Oct 2008, 20:40

Thanks. Version 1.6.6 guest additions seems to work OK.