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Problem: after upgrading the Ubuntu guest (running on Windows 7 host) to 15.10,
1. The full screen mode stopped working;
2. The shared folder with windows host stopped working;
Fixes:
1. Upgraded to virtual box version 5.0.10 (the latest version at the time).
2. Install VirtualBox Guest Additional as usual
# sudo mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
# cd /media/cdrom
# sudo ./VBoxLinuxAddtionRun
But failed to install Windows system drivers because of "unknown X11 version"
This is fixed by "sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-x11" package.
After a reboot, the full screen comes back.
3. Turn out there is a bug in virtualbox software, it did not update the symbolic link /sbin/mount.vboxsf points to,
and it still points to the old one which was cleaned during step 2.
# sudo rm /sbin/mount.vboxsf
# sudo ln -s /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-5.0.10/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/mount.vboxsf /sbin/mount.vboxsf
with a reboot, the shared folder now works.
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