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After installing Ubuntu 9.04 and VBoxguestadditon

Posted: 24. Apr 2009, 02:58
by jywang
After installing Ubuntu 9.04 and VBoxguestadditon,restart and input username and password,then screen change to blank,why?Thanks you very much!

Re: After installing Ubuntu 9.04 and VBoxguestadditon

Posted: 24. Apr 2009, 04:20
by Perryg
It would help if we had a bit more information.
Please read this and then post your question again.
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=8208

Re: After installing Ubuntu 9.04 and VBoxguestadditon

Posted: 24. Apr 2009, 12:42
by Sasquatch
From what I can tell, with this little information, is that you have the issue about Compiz. When Gnome enables the fancy effects, OpenGL fails and you're stuck with a white screen. Please check the Linux Guests forum for more info.

Re: After installing Ubuntu 9.04 and VBoxguestadditon

Posted: 26. Apr 2009, 08:35
by expat
UBUNTU 9.04 seems not to work.

Re: After installing Ubuntu 9.04 and VBoxguestadditon

Posted: 26. Apr 2009, 15:43
by arjun
(oops wrong thread - do not see a delete post option)

So I installed Xubuntu 8.04 on VBox 2.2. It works perfectly, including resize.
There is definitely a problem with VB2.2 and Xubuntu 9.04 when it comes to vbox video driver. Maybe this problem surfaces only for certain hardware like my netbook.

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