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2 Reason why Virtual Box’ “seamless mode” isn’t seamless

I’ve been running Virtual Box’ in seamless mode with a Linux host and a Windows guest and it is very impressive, but I wouldn’t call it seamless for 2 reasons.

  1. Windows are not managed by the hosts window manager - like they are with things like WINE.
  2. All the icons in the systray should be in the notification area, and so should things like the Windows Start Menu - see how VirtualPC integrates the Windows Menu with the Mac OSX dock.

If these things were fixed, then it would be seamless.

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    Alan Haggai Alavi     Says:
    February 26th, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    Hi.

    I also wish that VirtualBox was truly seamless! Window management should be done by the host’s window manager. Also, + window switching should switch between virtual as well as the other windows. I am waiting for such changes to happen. Right now, I run VirtualBox on a second virtual desktop.

    The notification area integration will be nice too. :-)

    Regards,
    Alan Haggai Alavi.

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