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Hello !

I have checked all menu bar, status bar, show in full screen in the virtual machine settings section,
but still no menu, tool bar or user interface in XP guest. I am using VB 6.0.6.0.4

I have search the forum, but the expression " user interface" is used quite a bit leading to all sorts of useless posts...

Any suggestion? I cannot load the guest additions because of that.

Are you saying you don't see the menu bar in a fullscreen XP guest? It is hidden at the bottom of the screen, similar to how the XP taskbar can be hidden, and pops up when you move the mouse over that location.

Also look at the VM settings "User Interface" tab, and make sure that the "Mini toolbar: Show in Full-screen/seamless" option is checked.

One thing however does not make sense: you cannot be in fullscreen mode if the Guest Additions are not already installed. I assume you're aware that a mazimized window (with still visible caption bar etc) is not the same as a full screen display.

Thank you mpack for your answer. Yes I meant maximized windows, not full screen. I have resize the windows just to be sure the menu was not hidden by the guest toolbar at the bottom to no avail.

Also, yes the "Mini toolbar: Show in Full-screen/seamless" option is checked.

I hate those simple problems,they seems to be worse than everything else. too simple yet hard to solve.

Francis4344 wrote: Also, yes the "Mini toolbar: Show in Full-screen/seamless" option is checked.

Since we've now established that you are not in fullscreen (or seamless) mode, then that option is obviously not relevant.

However there's another checkbox on the dialog to enable the main menu bar in a VM window. Make sure this is checked.

Yes it is!

Darn this is annoying... but thanks for your ongoing advice
By the way, I run WIN98 as guest and I do have the said menu!

I assume that means that the last suggestion did not work for the XP VM?

Please show me a screenshot of the VM window, including the desktop, caption bar and frame.

Also a VM log: With the VM fully shut down, right click it in the GUI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBox.log" (no other file) to a zip file. Attach the zip here.

In fact you might as well include the <vmname>.vbox file in the zip. Hopefully you don't have Windows stupid "Hide extensions for known file types" folder option enabled, therefore you can easily identify files with particular extensions.

Here is the log file. Also, just confirming the host I am running is Ubuntu 14.04, Mint edition.

The forum will not let me upload the vbox file?

Francis4344 wrote:The forum will not let me upload the vbox file?

If you ZIP it, you can upload it.

Francis4344 wrote:The forum will not let me upload the vbox file?

I know. That's why I asked you to include it in the zip.

You also omitted the screenshot I asked for.

Some things I see immediately in the log :-

00:00:01.302439 Guest OS type: 'WindowsXP_64'

Either you are that one person on the planet who installed a 64bit variant of XP, or this is incorrect and the XP you installed is 32bit.

Also 512MB RAM is a bit stingy considering the host has 6GB free, I would double to 1024MB. Graphics RAM is incorrect at 16MB - the VM settings dialog is warning you about that I'm sure, I'd increase to 64MB. You also assigned only 1 core from a 6 core host, but if XP is already installed then it's hard to change this later.

A 10GB system drive is not a great choice for XP. Please tell me it isn't a fixed size drive.

Finally, I can confirm that I see no evidence that you installed the Guest Additions.

Thanks again

I did not realized that win XP 64 wat NOT the way to go. Tells you how much I know about Windows.,. My last computer had Vista on it and I just chose XP to have an uncomplicated basic windows machine.

I tried your suggestions without success.

Since I am was not commited to XP, I have downloaded a functionning windows 7 VDI. Everything seems to be working alright.

Thanks for your time.