Seamless mode not working with Fedora 28 guest

[AB]

After vbox guest additions are installed with no errors, I observe that the seamless mode option is no longer disabled but I am still unable to copy/paste in either direction.

Entering seamless mode also does not show the windows open in guest OS but I am unfamiliar with seamless mode to know if it was user error or system error.

Host - Windows 10 Virtual box version - 5.2.10 r122406

Guest - Fedora 28 uname -r - 4.16.6-302.fc28.x86_64

[Socratis]

• Follow a "start the VM from cold-boot" / "observe error" / "shutdown the VM" cycle.

• With the VM completely shut down (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log".

• Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response.

• You were supposed to follow these steps when you filed the bug:

  Attach a (full) log file ("Machine" menu/"Show Log" in the main VirtualBox Manager window) straight away to save time for you and for us. The log file contains a lot of useful information about both the host and the guest systems as well as information about what happened during a particular machine run. Please do not cut and paste it.

If you want to use the latest version for your host/guests, you should also consider doing the same for VirtualBox. Download the latest official VirtualBox. As of this writing, that would be version 5.2.10. If that doesn't work (since F28 is a really new release) you should try the latest test builds.

Finally, may I suggest something? It's usually better and faster, if issues like this one (configuration, question) get first addressed in the ​VirtualBox forums. More than 95% of the issues are resolved over there...

[Michael Thayer]

Unfortunately, our seamless mode only supports X11 guest windows, and not pure Wayland ones. I have a couple of ideas to fix this, but no time in the foreseeable future (not even the distant horizon) to implement them.

[arno2]

In the meantime you can use the X11 version of GNOME. I have tested this, and seamless mode works this way. From the Fedora manual:

"Wayland is enabled by default in the GNOME Desktop. You can choose to run GNOME in X11 by choosing the Gnome on xorg option in the session chooser on the login screen. Currently KDE still uses X11 and although there is a plasma-wayland session available, it is not considered stable or bugfree at this time."