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Agreed as cruzer001 has provided a reply and it works. Thanks to both of you.

I am running Ubuntu 17.10 on VirtualBox 5.2.8 r121009 (Qt5.6.3) on a Mac Pro with MacOS 10.13.3.

On some applications Ubuntu flashes to a grey background at a rate of once or twice a second. On...

Excellent. Solved. Many thanks.

Tim

This thread sounds very similar to the problem I am experiencing:

This is a Mac host running Virtual box running a Ubuntu guest. The following error is produced after the first log-in after a...

I got this originally, IIRC, from Cyberdork on one of the VMWare forums. I have since extended and reworded it so that it works on my Mac, as proved a few minutes ago when I reinstalled VMWARE tooks...

I have just installed 8.10 (as a new installation not as an upgrade). Whenever I start it, it sticks for well over a minute after the initial checks and in particular after the one about the battery...

Right! Thanks for the info that the virtual cdrom should show on my desktop: it wasn't. But what was showing was the virtual cdrom for the Ubuntu installation, Ubuntu 8.04.1 i386, so I used the...

Yes, I had indeed clicked on "Install VMWare Tools" first. The option is still showing "Cancel VMWare Tools Installation". I still suspect there is something about my installation that prevents it...

Thanks for all the above. I tried it on my new installation of Ubuntu 8.04.1 on VMware Fusion 2 Beta 2. All went well until I got to the last line of ./vmware-install.pl[/code] which led to...