Enter Ubuntu 10.10. It was quick, simple, and straightforward to install and get running. Things actually worked like you would expect they would, you know, like a normal desktop OS. I installed Eclipse and all the necessary C++ libraries I needed. Now it came time to build the Guest Additions in VirtualBox for Ubuntu…
Well, it appeared to work, but I couldn’t use the auto-resize functionality of VirtualBox to change the size of the desktop. Also, the screen resolution was stuck at 800×600. As it turns out, the built-in guest additions for Ubuntu 10.10 don’t work correctly. In order to fix the situation you just need to execute the following on the command line:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-x11
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