Seamless mode is deactivated. How to activate it?

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mjampala
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Seamless mode is deactivated. How to activate it?

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Switch to Seamless mode is deactivated. How to activate it?
mpack
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Re: Seamless mode is deactivated. How to activate it?

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Install the guest additions. AFAIK that is the only requirement.
mjampala
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Re: Seamless mode is deactivated. How to activate it?

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Thank you. I tried that, but installtion is throwing errors like cannot write d3d8.dll and d3d9.dll. Any idea of this errors?
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Re: Seamless mode is deactivated. How to activate it?

Post by stefan.becker »

Have you read the Manual about installing the GA in safe mode?
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Re: Seamless mode is deactivated. How to activate it?

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If you have 3D acceleration enabled in the VM settings then you must install the GAs in safe mode.
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