Installing "virtualbox-ose-guest-utils" and rebooting seemed solve it for me, and got compiz working at the same time, though I had already installed the guest additions that came with virtualbox with no errors reported. It's still odd that "try ubuntu" worked for me without needing compiz but it didn't work after installing.
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