Help Testing in a VM

Aydos · #1 26th September 2011, 11:13 PM

I am trying to test Fedora 16 in a VM with VirtualBox on my windows laptop while I wait on a new hard drive to set it up on my desktop for dual boot.

I have it up and running fine, but it goes to fallback mode instead of gnome shell. I have the video memory maxed at 128 and 3d accelaration turned on.

I know this is more of a VirtualBox question than a Fedora question, but I was hoping someone here has some knowledge on the situation and can point me in the right direction.

sea · #2 26th September 2011, 11:28 PM

AFAIK this is a common bug since F15 with Gnome 3.
It is know that it doesnt work well in VM's due to the 3d (dont know whats 3d with it anyway) desktop Gnome 3 is using.

***DBelton*** · #3 27th September 2011, 12:15 AM

You must run VirtualBox => 4.0.8 for Gnome shell to work in the VM

Plus, Not sure if they have it fixed on Windows hosts now, but for awhile it would only work if you had a linux host.

Gnome shell works fine for me, but I am still having problems trying to get it to support more than 1 monitor in a VirtualBox VM. I just get screens of garbage

Edit:

What video card does your laptop have in it? If it's one that Gnome shell doesn't work on, or it's marginal, then that could be the problem.

Aydos · #4 27th September 2011, 02:18 AM

The laptop is a Lenovo X220. They are new and have a i5 Sandry Bridge. I dont remember what the vid card is but it is not that bad. Also, I ran Fedora 15 in Gnome Shell fine on the same system.

I also have this problem on my Home desktop which has a 275GTX in in.

Are you saying I need to use an older version of VirtualBox? I have the newest now.

cazo · #5 27th September 2011, 05:47 AM

I believe you need to have "Guest Additions" installed (on the guest system) for gnome shell to run - but the installer can't/won't install the Xorg drivers (yet). A newer "Extension Pack" is needed from Oracle. I don't expect them to release a new one until after F16 is actually released.

I suggest making a LiveUSB (or at least a LiveCD) of Fedora 16 to try it for real.

***Dangermouse*** · #6 27th September 2011, 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aydos

I am trying to test Fedora 16 in a VM with VirtualBox on my windows laptop while I wait on a new hard drive to set it up on my desktop for dual boot.

I have it up and running fine, but it goes to fallback mode instead of gnome shell. I have the video memory maxed at 128 and 3d accelaration turned on.

I know this is more of a VirtualBox question than a Fedora question, but I was hoping someone here has some knowledge on the situation and can point me in the right direction.

As already stated you need the latest vbox, 3d support ticked, and Guest editions installed. for it to work.

Aydos · #7 27th September 2011, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dangermouse

As already stated you need the latest vbox, 3d support ticked, and Guest editions installed. for it to work.

I have the latest installed and 3d support is ticked.

What do you mean by guess editions?

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Ahh guest additions. I just found those. I followed the instructions to a T and have them all installed and set up, but it still boots into fallback mode.

Is there a command I need to run or something to make gnome shell load.

sea · #8 27th September 2011, 05:59 PM

Not guess, but guesT Addition or extension.

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html

€dit:
Ehnm yea, enabling 3d support for the (every) single vmbox in the properties of the box.

Aydos · #9 27th September 2011, 06:35 PM

Sorry for the typo, but yes I installed it. I followed everything in that chapter and it still does not work.

I am starting to wonder it just does not work in VM.

On the virtualbox site and the opensuse site people cannot get gnome3 running in a vm right now from what I could find.

***DBelton*** · #10 27th September 2011, 08:16 PM

I am running the Gnome 3 shell in a virtualbox vm without issues except for getting more than 1 monitor to work.

I installed virtualbox ffrom the virtualbox repo. Then installed the extension pack. After doing that, I then installed the guest additions in the VM.

Edit...

What I had was for windows guests, which isn't applicable here

**AdamW** · #11 27th September 2011, 08:22 PM

AFAIK it can't work with F16 ATM because VBox guest additions don't support the version of X that F16 has. It does work with F15, I believe.

Aydos · #12 27th September 2011, 08:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AdamW

AFAIK it can't work with F16 ATM because VBox guest additions don't support the version of X that F16 has. It does work with F15, I believe.

This is what I heard as well.

My Guest Additions did not error out when installed.

***DBelton*** · #13 27th September 2011, 08:37 PM

ahhh.. I am running F15 in a VM.

I didn't really notice that he was trying to run F16. I just saw that he was trying to get Gnome shell running.

Aydos · #14 27th September 2011, 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DBelton

ahhh.. I am running F15 in a VM.

I didn't really notice that he was trying to run F16. I just saw that he was trying to get Gnome shell running.

Yeah F15 runs fine for me. Yeah I thought I posted in the F16 forums I may have made a mistake.

sea · #15 27th September 2011, 08:54 PM

You'd posted correct

Hmm, wondering if F16 runs in VM with a F16 host