On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 8:32 PM, walt <[email protected]> wrote: > Because I'm paranoid, I update my virtualbox ~amd64-gentoo-guest machine every > day *before* I update my (real hardware) "production" machine. (The definition > of "production" is left as an exercise for the reader.) > > Not long ago I noticed that the vbox guest machine failed to start a gnome > session because "3D hardware support" is not available on the guest machine. > > To make a very long story short, I downgraded the xorg-server on the gentoo > guest from 1.16.0 to 1.15.1, and now gnome3 is happy again. > > Techie detail for nerds only: /usr/libexec/gnome-session-check-accelerated > returns an error message with xorg-server-1.16.0, but works normally with > xorg-server-1.15.1. > > Has anyone else seen the same behavior?
I cannot recommend on VirtualBox (although, as some kernel developers have said, their modules are "crap"[1]), but I've succeeded in running GNOME 3 with Qemu using the qxl virtual video card. It's slow, but it works. Regards. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk5Mw -- Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
