BETA 2 macOS/ARM64 Guest Additions

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BETA 2 macOS/ARM64 Guest Additions

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VirtualBox User Manual - Section 1.4.1

The 5th Bullet Point states inaccurately that:
Oracle VirtualBox Guest Additions are not available for Arm host platforms.
Therefore, features such as seamless windows and shared folders are not
available.
The Guest features I've tested with Debian 12.5 and openSUSE 15.6 are:

1 Mouse integration working in both X11 and Wayland sessions on both VMs

2. Shared Folders working in both X11 and Wayland sessions.

3. Seamless widows not working (as expected - Option 'greyed out')

4. Resizing VM windows manually by moving the VM window borders works in an X11 session but not in Wayland.

5. Full-screen mode works in an X11. However, when using a KDE Plasma Desktop with the Task Bar in it's default location at the foot of the screen (Windows Style) the Task Bar 'disappears' in Full-screen mode. But, if the Task Bar is relocated to the side or top of the VM window (Mac-style) it is still visible when switching to Full-screen mode.

Full-screen mode does not work correctly in a Wayland session - The visible window area does not re-size.

Can provide VBox.logs if required.
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