VBox and scrambled screens

[Keith Clark]

On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 22:05 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Keith Clark wrote:
> > I'm trying to use VBox under 9.04 and when I'm trying to create a new
> > virtual machine, I cannot read the screen.  It seems that I get a
> > capture of the background and it never clears.  I can see activity
> > but it is obscured by the background image.
> 
> Could it be that it is a problem with desktop effects? As a test you 
> could disable desktop effects and check if the problem persists.
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
> 

Nils,

That does indeed seem to be it.  Disable during installation and then
turn it back on after seems to do the trick!

Keith