Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

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Primus729
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Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

Post by Primus729 »

Hi,

I'm running a Lubuntu Vbox in my Windows 8, and I have sucessfully installed the VBox additions supplied by Virtualbox, having installed updates, dkms, build-essential and linux-generic beforehand.

Yet I'm still unable to resize the window. I have 128MB of video memory provided, so that isn't the source as well.

Any help? I can't seem to find what's wrong.

Thank you,
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Re: Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

Post by Perryg »

Post the guests log file ( as an attachment )
Also the guest /var/log/vboxadd-install.log ( as an attachment )
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Re: Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

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How do I access that?
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Re: Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

Post by Perryg »

The guests log file can be obtained by right clicking the guest in the main manager.
The /var/log/vbox-install.log must come from the guest. The exact location is hinted in the information I posted. Use terminal or file manager.
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Re: Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

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I shut down the guest and now I'm having

Cannot attach medium 'C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' {3c47cdf7-24e4-4f3b-b5c3-1e650c1c6e99}: medium is already associated with the current state of machine uuid {888015eb-24cd-47be-b6c7-e4b7cf2d141f}!.
Result Code:
VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE (0x80BB000C)
Component:
Medium
Interface:
IMedium {05f2bbb6-a3a6-4fb9-9b49-6d0dda7142ac}

Could it be related? I''ve tried dettaching the superfluos VBoxGuestAdditions.iso but it keeps coming back
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Re: Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

Post by Perryg »

Need to reply to the previous request/s before trying to guess what might be the problem.
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Re: Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

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It's just that I can't open the logs while this error is on, and I having some dificulties dealing with it, as removing the extra .iso from "Optical Disks" in "Virtual Media Manager" isn't having any effect (it shows up again there if I close and reopen the manager).
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Re: Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

Post by Perryg »

Zip the guests *.vbox file and post that here.
The file is located in the main VirtualBox VMs folder ans under the folder that holds the guest and its control file.
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Re: Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

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Here it is
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Secundus.zip
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Re: Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

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Replace your file with this one after you rename it by removing the .txt
Secundus.vbox.txt
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Re: Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

Post by Primus729 »

It doens't give that error any longer, thank you.

As for the fullscreen problem, here are the logs:
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vboxadd-install.log
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Secundus-2014-06-10-18-58-49.log
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Re: Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

Post by Perryg »

If you enable hardware virtualization in your bios you will have a much better experience with the guest

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00:00:00.503378 HMR3Init: Falling back to raw-mode: VT-x is disabled in the BIOS.
According to the install log yo0u have the guest additions installed. Why do you think they are not?
Look in the device tab and see if auto-resize is enabled.
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Re: Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

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The auto-resize option is greyed out.
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Re: Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

Post by Perryg »

And this guest has been rebooted, right?
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Re: Lubuntu: VBox Addiotion installed but not working

Post by Primus729 »

Yes. I also changed the BIOS as you suggested.
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