I think I figured it out from this page: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10607 "I was getting that too, but found a way to solve it. The cause for me was that I was that the guest additions inside the guest were v1.6.2, while the actual virtual box software I was running on the host (Windows) was 1.5.x. Once I upgraded the software on the Windows host to 1.6.2, all was fine."
Since my host was Ubuntu 8.04 with virtualbox version 1.5.6, and the guest was Ubuntu 8.10 with virtualbox version 2.0.4, this version mis- match must have been the problem. I had no idea that the virtualbox version of host and guest needed to be the same. So I went got the 2.0.4 version of virtualbox for hardy here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds I removed all my virtualbox* packages from my host, and then installed the .deb from the above URL. I started up my guest and the kernel modules loaded perfectly fine, and I was able to mount shared directories from the host (vboxadd was already loaded upon boot, and I just had to do "sudo modprobe vboxvfs" for the file sharing). However the video still isn't working for me, it complains about an ABI version mismatch if I put 'driver "vboxvideo"' in my xorg.conf... but that's a separate issue I guess. Also, the mouse integration started 'working' after rebooting the guest, but the guest cursor only moves in a diagonal line down and to the right when I move my mouse. There were a couple tickets about this weird mouse behavior on virtualbox.org: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1324 http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1299 -- Guest utils do not work, Intrepid on Hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297915 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs -- universe-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs
