I am running Kubuntu 14.04 LTS on a Windows 8.1 host, and I am trying to get it to work with seamless mode. Using latest version of VirtualBox.
I have guest additions installed on the guest, and when entering a program and looking at the "view" menu, the "Seamless Mode" line is grayed out. The hotkey combination doesn't work either.
I double checked that the program is focused and things like that, also rebooted a couple of times. Also disabled nested paging.
Is there any way to test if the guest additions are working? Also, what should I do?
1 Answer
Failure to switch to seamless mode indicates a missing or incomplete installation of the guest additions.
In light weight Ubuntu variants we may not have a gcc compiler installed to compile the additions for the guest. This is provided with the package build-essential that we have to install in the guest before we can install the guest additions.
A missing compiler may result in a fail message on running the guest additions install script.
After we had installed the guest additions without an error we need a reboot of the guest to be able to switch the View to Seamless Mode.
