Seamless Mode Grayed Out in 1.6.4

ezHiker · Post by **ezHiker** » 5. Aug 2008, 00:05

Hello,

I just upgraded to 1.6.4 on my Ubuntu 8.04 machine and the seamless mode is no longer available for my XP guest machine. The menu item is grayed out.

I have also noted that Auto-resize and Full Screen mode no longer work.

I have tried uninstalling and re-installing Guest Additions repeatedly, but no luck.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix?

Thanks.

Post by **frank** » 6. Aug 2008, 13:49

So are the guest additions working after you reinstalled them? Do dynamic resizing of the guest and mouse integration work? And does the tray icon show the correct version (1.6.4)?

ezHiker · Post by **ezHiker** » 6. Aug 2008, 16:05

Well, parts of the guest additions seem to be working. Mouse integration is working, and the guest machine seems to be using the Virtualbox video driver. But dynamic re-sizing doesn't work. I'm not seeing the system tray icon either.

ezHiker · Post by **ezHiker** » 13. Aug 2008, 15:01

*Bump*

Post by **frank** » 15. Aug 2008, 13:43

The only advise I can give you is to completely uninstall the 1.6.4 additions and install them again. Maybe some file was not properly installed, there are some problems we are currently trying to debug regarding the WinXP guest installer. Apart from this, seamless on WinXP guests should work with 1.6.4.

ezHiker · Post by **ezHiker** » 19. Aug 2008, 20:24

Thanks for the reply, Frank.

At this point I have some reason to believe that it may be related to permissions on the XP guest, because I had another guest on another Linux host start doing the same thing after joining a domain. I've also noticed that the guest additions service refuses to start.