Full Screen on second monitor crashes VM

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2Twisty
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Full Screen on second monitor crashes VM

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When I put the VM in full screen mode, it goes full screen on the MacBook's display panel. When I try to move it to the secondary monitor, I click on the "VIEW" menu from the popup menu and nothing happens. No menu pops up, so I am unable to tell VBox to put the VM on the second monitor. About 50% of the time, this causes the VM to crash and it shows as "aborted" in Vbox manager.

If, however, I run the VM in a window, I can drag it to the secondary monitor and stretch the window to fill the screen and it runs fine with no issues. I'd like to be able to run this in full screen mode rather than losing the screen real estate from the title bar and status bars on the window.

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HOST:

MacBook Pro 8,2 (Early 2011 version)
OSX 10.8.1
VBox 4.1.22 r80657
Extension Pack
8GB RAM

Guest:

Windows 7 Enterprise SP1
Guest Additions Installed

System
Base Memory: 4092 MB
Processor(s):1
Execution Cap: 100%
Boot Order: Network, Hard Disk
VT-x/AMD-V: Enabled
Nested Paging: Enabled

Display
Video Memory: 38 MB
3D Acceleration: Disabled
2D Video Acceleration: Enabled
Remote Desktop Server:
Disabled

Storage
IDE Controller
IDE Secondary Master (CD/DVD): VBoxGuestAdditions.iso (49.79 MB)
SATA Controller
SATA Port 0: Windows 7.vdi (Normal, 40.00 GB)

Audio
Host Driver: CoreAudio
Controller: Intel HD Audio

Network
Adapter 1: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged adapter, en0: Ethernet)

Serial Ports
Disabled

USB
Device Filters: 0 (0 active)

Shared Folders
None
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mpack
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Re: Full Screen on second monitor crashes VM

Post by mpack »

Post the VM log file please, as a compressed attachment. The VM log file is called "VBox.log", find it in the "Logs" subfolder of the VM folder. Make sure the VM is shut down (not just suspended) when you grab a copy of the log.
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