Seamless mode is disabled

ninadshaha · Post by **ninadshaha** » 16. Jan 2009, 04:06

Hello all,
I am having Dell studio 15 laptop with windows vista home premium. recently i prepare a virtual machine with RHEL4, ubantu 8,10, SLED 10, and install guest additions successfully. still the seamless mode option in Device menu is disabled.
Please help me how to resolve this issue.

Regards,
ninad.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 18. Jan 2009, 20:27

Do you have custom resolutions? So the VM resolution changes automatically if you resize the GUI? If that doesn't happen, then the video isn't installed properly. Check your xorg.conf file and make sure that the driver is set to vboxvideo. Add it if there is no config for a videocard.

ninadshaha · Post by **ninadshaha** » 19. Jan 2009, 05:15

Sasquatch wrote:Do you have custom resolutions? So the VM resolution changes automatically if you resize the GUI? If that doesn't happen, then the video isn't installed properly. Check your xorg.conf file and make sure that the driver is set to vboxvideo. Add it if there is no config for a videocard.

Hea do you have any sample xorg.conf file..
if you have please give it to me..

Post by **Sasquatch** » 20. Jan 2009, 22:15

It's posted countless times in the Linux Guests forum, but here it is anyway.

Code: Select all

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"vboxvideo"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "vboxmouse"
        Driver          "vboxmouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"        0 0
        InputDevice     "vboxmouse"
EndSection