Hi, actually I had misprinted the VirtualBox release versions: 1.3.1 instead of 3.1.0 and 1.3.2 instead of 3.1.2 so the problem I came across with was aganst the two most recent versions currently availabe... Sorry for that.
Eventually this morning I understood the reason why the problem appeared. After installed the guest extensions you must perform the following: 1) shutdown Ubuntu 2) shutdown virtualBox 3) reboot Windows7 What I did instead was simply rebooting Ubuntu and after that the entire Ubuntu installation became unusable. This morning I rebuilt Ubuntu entirely then installed the guest additions. After performed the actions above everything worked fine and the issue is closed now. > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 04:28:58 -0800 > From: vincenzo lorenzale <[email protected]> > Subject: [vbox-users] guest addition disrupts xserver opening in > Ubuntu9.10 guest on windows7 host > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I have recently tried VirtualBox on Windows7 host configuring a > Ubuntu9.10 guest. It-s all OK as far as no guest addition is set up, > the bad news comes up at the first reboot after guest addition is > installed: a black screen prompting user id comes up and disappears at > a frequency of 2 times per second. No way to respond with uid&psw > since the input char for password is uncertain (you never know if it > was picked up or not so the login always fails). VirtualBox version I > tried are 1.3.1 and 1.3.2, on Windows Vista I tried the same > succesfully instead. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 06:43:09 -0600 > From: Bruce MacArthur <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [vbox-users] guest addition disrupts xserver opening in > Ubuntu9.10 guest on windows7 host > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On Saturday 02 January 2010 06:28:58 am vincenzo lorenzale wrote: >> I have recently tried VirtualBox on Windows7 host configuring a >> Ubuntu9.10 guest. It-s all OK as far as no guest addition is set up, >> the bad news comes up at the first reboot after guest addition is >> installed: a black screen prompting user id comes up and disappears at >> a frequency of 2 times per second. No way to respond with uid&psw >> since the input char for password is uncertain (you never know if it >> was picked up or not so the login always fails). VirtualBox version I >> tried are 1.3.1 and 1.3.2, on Windows Vista I tried the same >> succesfully instead. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vbox-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users >> > I strongly suggest that you try contemporary software -- 3.x.x. Nothing > older receives normal support, and few list-members seem to be that > badly out-of-date! And your OS selection would seem to demand more > current features as well. > > Bruce Mac Arthur > [email protected] _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
