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Seamless XP does not work
Posted: 17. Feb 2009, 23:55
by Dafoe
Hi all,
just installed virtualbox on my ubuntu 8.10 i386 machine with windows xp sp3 as guest system. I cannot however get the xp to behave in a seamless mode even though I press "right-ctrl" + L at the same time.
Any hint highly appreciated!
Re: Seamless XP does not work
Posted: 18. Feb 2009, 01:09
by mcp
Dafoe wrote:Hi all,
just installed virtualbox on my ubuntu 8.10 i386 machine with windows xp sp3 as guest system. I cannot however get the xp to behave in a seamless mode even though I press "right-ctrl" + L at the same time.
Any hint highly appreciated!
Have you installed the guest additions? If not install them and seamless mode should be available.
MCP
Posted: 18. Feb 2009, 09:37
by Dafoe
I installed virtualbox using the apt-get source for intrepid so:
apt-get install virtualbox-2.1
Are you suggesting that I install the OSE version and the guest addition package which comes with the OSE package. I ask because if I am to install the ose version it wants to remove the virtualbox-2.1 package i recently installed.
Posted: 19. Feb 2009, 21:10
by Sasquatch
You have to install the Guest Additions in your XP Guest. See the manual for how to do that.
Posted: 19. Feb 2009, 21:25
by Dafoe
Ok, I was using VBoxGTK to manage my virtual machine - Suns xVM Virtualbox is what I needed.
Thx