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03-08-2014, 08:22 PM
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Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: CentOS 6 and Fedora
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Virtualbox in Seamless Mode
I'm running XP in a virtual machine on my Fedora 19 desktop machine. Everything's working fine, but I can't figure out how to start a virtual machine IN seamless mode. I used to do this several years ago. Now, I just can't figure out how to do it and I can't find anything on the Internet about it. All issues I find are about getting seamless mode to work.
Anybody know how to do this?
TIA.
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03-09-2014, 12:32 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Northeastern Michigan, where Carhartt is a Designer Label
Distribution: Slackware 32- & 64-bit Stable
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If you've installed VirtualBox from Oracle, you can find the manual at /opt/VirtualBox/UserManual.pdf. Open that in your favorite PDF reader; e.g., Acrobat Reader, Okular, etc., and search (generally Ctl-F) for seamless -- there are a number of references, beginning on page 74 and going up from there.
One thing you should have done -- and if you didn't, do it -- is install the Guest Additions (which provide support for seamless operations).
Hope this helps some.
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03-09-2014, 08:15 PM
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Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: CentOS 6 and Fedora
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Thanks for the point in the right direction. I couldn't find anything on Google because I was passing the solution up.
All documentation I came across, (including the manual), refer to starting a session using "VBoxClient". My system, (Fedora 19), uses "/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox" so I thought there was some other process at work here. After looking at this for a minute, I simply added the "--seamless" argument to my desktop shortcut and that worked.
Also, the user manual you referred to wasn't in that location. I searched the file system and found the file elsewhere.
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03-10-2014, 08:45 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Northeastern Michigan, where Carhartt is a Designer Label
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Galaxy_Stranger
Also, the user manual you referred to wasn't in that location. I searched the file system and found the file elsewhere.
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The default (from Oracle) is installed in /opt/VirtualBox; that would be where it would install using VirtualBox-4.3.8-92456-Linux_amd64.run and Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.8-92456.vbox-extpack. Your distribution probably repackaged it for you. No big deal.
Glad to know you got going.
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