On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:38:58 +0100 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
The short answer to this is I don't know - sorry. You could try the mounting stuff inside your vbox and see if they work. If they don't then there may be a problem with your full installation.
I have now reinstalled Mageia for the second time (twice because I screwed up fstab and it wouldn't boot and it took me a little while to work out what I'd done) but it all now works. The windows are now the size they were before I powered off and new windows don't open up in full screen. So apart from odd things like not having a desktop icon for Sylpheed, it all works.
Thanks to Steve among others for the help.