vbox supports gnome3

[leigh123linux]

Gome3 works in vbox after installing the guest additions.


http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

VirtualBox 4.0.8 (released 2011-05-16)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)
Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more than 16 cores (bug #8389)
Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in 64-bit mode (bug #7606)
GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)
VBoxManage: added controlvm screenshotpng subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format
VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)
NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in Ethernet header and in ARP requests
Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting
E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)
SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances (only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)
Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)
Floppy: several improvement
HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)
USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated (Windows hosts only)
3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest window
3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15
Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)
Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)
Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before building kernel modules (bug #8795)
Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10
Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)

[PatMcLJr]

off the topic, sorry
Oh, that's f15 with gnome 3 ?
Now I see what all the hoopla is all about, no wonder these techie types act like they just bit into a lemon.

Might take some getting used?

Pat Jr.

[sweetlandj]

Incredibly happy to see this. I struggled for about a month trying to get the beta running in VBox and finally gave up and installed the silly thing. No regrets, but it would have been nice to be able to play with it a bit before diving in head first, so to speak.

[Palooka]

@Leigh,

That sounds good. I gave F15 GNOME another try in a VBox VM but no dice. It is fully updated (64 bit) on a F15 64 bit host, but the VM still says it must go into fallback mode, even after installing guest additions.

VirtualBox 4.0.8. Am I doing something wrong?

[skyxn3t]

I've the same problem as Palooka.
I've the latest version of VBox, 3d acceleration enabled, guest additions installed. And it keeps going to the Fallback mode...

[leigh123linux]

Check your xorg.conf in the guest

# VirtualBox generated configuration file
# based on /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName    "VirtualBox Virtual Output"
  VendorName   "Oracle Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  BoardName    "VirtualBox Graphics"
  Driver       "vboxvideo"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  VendorName   "Oracle Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      24
  EndSubSection
  Device       "Device[0]"
  Identifier   "Screen[0]"
  Monitor      "Monitor[0]"
EndSection

[Palooka]

My xorg.conf is identical to that.

Palooka

[skyxn3t]

^ Yea, me too, I've the exact xorg.conf file as leigh.

[leigh123linux]

I'm running a nvidia card on my host, what do you use?

[skyxn3t]

I use Nvidia as well
Nvidia Geforce GTX 260M / 1GB

[StephenH]

Originally Posted by skyxn3t

I use Nvidia as well
Nvidia Geforce GTX 260M / 1GB

Question: When you set up the virtual machine, what did you use for the Display settings? I set it up for 64 MB of display memory and made sure the Enable 3D Acceleration button was checked.
Before I changed the display settings, it behaved much as you said. I am using it with an Nvidia GeForce GT 220 /1GB card using the Nvidia drivers.

[skyxn3t]

Originally Posted by StephenH

Question: When you set up the virtual machine, what did you use for the Display settings? I set it up for 64 MB of display memory and made sure the Enable 3D Acceleration button was checked.
Before I changed the display settings, it behaved much as you said. I am using it with an Nvidia GeForce GT 220 /1GB card using the Nvidia drivers.

I checked the "Enable 3D Acceleration" checkbox and increased the Video memory size to 128MB before installing the guest.
I'm using the proprietary nvidia drivers from RPMfusion.

If I run (gnome-shell --replace and mutter --replace) in the Terminal from the fall-back mode, I get the following:

[user@host ~]$ gnome-shell --replace
failed to create drawable

(gnome-shell:30289): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to select the newly created GLX context
Window manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.

[user@host ~]$ mutter --replace
failed to create drawable

(mutter:30295): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to select the newly created GLX context
Window manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.

[StephenH]

Originally Posted by skyxn3t

I checked the "Enable 3D Acceleration" checkbox and increased the Video memory size to 128MB before installing the guest.
I'm using the proprietary nvidia drivers from RPMfusion.

If I run (gnome-shell --replace and mutter --replace) in the Terminal from the fall-back mode, I get the following:

[user@host ~]$ gnome-shell --replace
failed to create drawable

(gnome-shell:30289): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to select the newly created GLX context
Window manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.

[user@host ~]$ mutter --replace
failed to create drawable

(mutter:30295): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to select the newly created GLX context
Window manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.

Interesting...

I had just installed F15, then installed GCC, dkms, kernel-headers, and kernal-devel. I then rebooted and tried to install the guest additions, but it kept failing. It installed the latest kernel-headers, but the kernel was still the original. I did the updates, rebooted, and then installed the guest additions, which went through fine.

After that, the Gnome Shell started up, and I was able to resize the window to be more what I wanted.

I guess I should add that I am running Fedora 14 x86_64 and VirtualBox 4.08, not VirtualBox-OSE. My Fedora 15 guest is also 64 bit.

My machine is based on an AMD Phenom 9850 with 8 GB RAM, of which I dedicated one processor and 2 GB RAM to the virtual machine. I don't know if having IO-APIC checked makes a difference in this.

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by StephenH

Interesting...

I had just installed F15, then installed GCC, dkms, kernel-headers, and kernal-devel. I then rebooted and tried to install the guest additions, but it kept failing. It installed the latest kernel-headers, but the kernel was still the original. I did the updates, rebooted, and then installed the guest additions, which went through fine.

After that, the Gnome Shell started up, and I was able to resize the window to be more what I wanted.

I guess I should add that I am running Fedora 14 x86_64 and VirtualBox 4.08, not VirtualBox-OSE. My Fedora 15 guest is also 64 bit.

My machine is based on an AMD Phenom 9850 with 8 GB RAM, of which I dedicated one processor and 2 GB RAM to the virtual machine. I don't know if having IO-APIC checked makes a difference in this.

I used 3 cores for my VM.

.

[smr54]

I couldn't get it to work either. However, didn't try very hard. Installed F15, guest additions, but as I don't use Gnome, it was more an exercise to see if it would work--when it went back into fallback mode, stopped trying.