Lucid Mouse [SOLVED]

[Pontiac]

I'm running a Linux host (Hardy) and Lucid (KDE as the window manager) as a guest with VBox 3.2. I seem to have the following problem after I've installed the Guest Additions:

Working:
- Audio works,
- ACPI works for shutdown via the VMs menu,
- video drivers seem to have been set to allow 1024x768 resolution instead of 800x600

Not working:
- Guest won't release the mouse without hitting the Host Key
- Desktop Auto-resize doesn't work

With an XP Guest, and other older Ubuntu Linux guests, mouse integration is seamless, and it works. I noticed that in Windows, there is a tray icon for the guest additions, but I don't notice one in Lucid.

Something I'm missing?

[Perryg]

Try this:
create (if it does not exist) /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the following in it

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Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "VBoxMouse"
        Driver      "vboxmouse"
        Option      "CorePointer"
EndSection

Also look at the machine tab and make sure that auto resize is turned on.

[Pontiac]

The AutoResize option isn't available. Greyed out.

Added your config to the a new xorg.conf (Did not exist, but a "Failsafe" one does) and rebooted, again to no avail.

I'm writing to you from within the mentioned XP Guest, and I'm swapping between host and this guest without an issue.

Edit: In addition, COPY/PASTE from VM (XP) to VM (Lucid) doesn't seem to be working either.

[baf]

It seems that the guest additions didn't install properly.

What does:
lsmod |grep ^vbo
give as result? Mine is (numbers will probably differ)
vboxvideo 1228 1
vboxsf 33051 1
vboxguest 150339 7 vboxsf


If that was ok ,what does
ps axwwo command|grep -i vbo

give as output? It should be:
/usr/sbin/VBoxService
/usr/bin/VBoxClient --clipboard
/usr/bin/VBoxClient --display
/usr/bin/VBoxClient --seamless

look in /var/log/vboxadd-install.log and /var/log/vboxadd-install-x11.log
see if you can spot any errors there and or post those files here

[Pontiac]

The first log file you mentioned stated that gcc wasn't installed. With a simple apt-get install gcc as root, restart of the machine, I seem to be better off now.

Thanks.