Virtualbox Seamless Mode with Jaunty Upgrade

Lucio M Nicolosi lmnicolosi at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 03:31:06 UTC 2009


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Michael Perry <mperry at lnxpowered.org> wrote:
> Hello all-
>
> I'm curious if others that may run Virtualbox in seamless mode are
> having issues with how the screen is redrawn around the start menu on
> vista or XP guests in virtual 2.2. I've not done a fresh install but
> have upgraded about 3 different systems including 2 laptops that are
> thinkpads. The third system is a no-name AMD64 with an nvidia card. I've
> removed the nvidia drivers and re-installed virtualbox after purging it
> but cannot seem to rid myself of the problems. BAsically, the start menu
> gets all garbled and the background bleeds through and often
> applications I start (there are only two apps I really use these days)
> do not have menu items or are corrupted.
>
> I'm probably going to try a fresh install when I get a new laptop drive
> for my thinkpad T500.


Tried seamless mode once, (I guess still in 2.1.4), and gave up.
(NVidia 8200). It works very well without it...



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