Arch Linux and guest additions aren't working properly.

[MetaBrain]

Hello, I just registered because after days, I still can't get VBOX guest addittions to work correctly on Arch Linux guest, mostly the graphic related additions. Shared folders is working perfectly.

I just folowed every step in installing Arch, like in a regular machine. Installed the guest addicions (package or throught the CD, it's the same, tryed both).
So many problems appears. Mouse integration wasn't working in X. Aparently we have to tweak xorg.conf manualy change some stuff. For example :

xorg.conf:

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change the Driver "mouse" to Driver "vboxmouse"

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change the video driver from "vesa" to "vboxvideo"

I managed to get mouse integration this way, but it's still buggy. Gnome menus that are suposed to be hover only to select now require a click to select them (don't know if I'm explaining myself correctly here...) along some other "minor" issues. But the problem is the guest isn't dynamically resizing the X interface when my I resize the VBox app window in my Vista host.

They only resize and fill all my app window even I open th Gnome terminal and exec "VBoxRandR". Isn't VBoxRandR supposed to be run automatically everytime I resize the VBox window in my Windows host?

Please help, this is my 2nd Arch Linux install and so far I didn't manage to have all integration with the host OS I'd have under my Ubuntu guest (with Ubuntu all guest addittions are working perfectly).

Thanks for the time, Daniel Parreira.

[floop-interchange]

Hi,
I had an almost similar problem except that neither my mouse nor my keyboard was working. After starting hald it worked. For auto-resizing to work you have to start VboxRandr.

[MetaBrain]

Hi.

How do I "start" VBoxRandR? So far when I execute it, it doesn't start a service module, but rather, resizes the screen and then exists...

Thanks in advance.

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bump

[stryder]

add

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/usr/bin/VBoxClient-all 

to the top of ~/.xinitrc (create one if ~/.xinitrc does not exist)

Archlinux has an excellent wiki which you should check out: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Virtualbox

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add

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/usr/bin/VBoxClient-all 

to the top of ~/.xinitrc (create one if ~/.xinitrc does not exist)

Archlinux has an excellent wiki which you should check out: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Virtualbox

Wow. I read the whole bloody wiki and didn't read that step

Thanks a lot mate, working 100% now