Comment 10 for bug 999929

I am running Virtualbox 4.1.18 on Windows 7 host (home premium) and Ubuntu 12.04 as guest. I had a tough time installing guest additions in the first place and I believe there is also a discussion as to the autorun for the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso. After the installation, the shared folder was active and I could transfer files easily from Host to guest and vice versa.

However, no matter how many times I reinstalled the Vbox guest addtion package, reconfigured dkms , reinstalled linux-headers and installed the xserver-xorg packages, the seamless mode didn't seem to work. It did need the X11 I guess. I decided to go for the easier way out and installed the gnome package.

Now I have a desktop manager and the seamless mode works real smooth too.

Other options like xdm, kdm, lightdm would also work. Somehow I feel that I was just missing the x11 packages.