Let me start by pointing out that I?am a total newbie with OpenSolaris and VirtualBox for that matter. Yesterday I installed OpenSolaris on VirtualBox. Everything installed smoothly and I was presented with Gnome. The framebuffer was slow, so I expected I had no HW acceleration. I had several resolutions available up to 1280x1024.
I have some experience with VMware, and with VMware (workstation) there were these "VMware Tools" that you needed to install in the guest OS to have hardware acceleration. I figured that the option "install guest additions" in Virtual Box would be some sort of equivalent. So I installed them, rebooted the system and I had HW acceleration. And here is where the inevitable "but" comes in. BUT... it was only 640x480 resolution. And that is the only resolution I could pick. There was an Nvidia control panel in Gnome (I have an 8800GT) but upon launching it it statet that no adapters could be found. So I opened up Xorg.conf and it sayd "This file was created by VirtualBox Additions installer as it was unable to find any existing configuration file for X" There are 2 "device" sections one where the "Identifier" states a "Generic Video Card" and as the driver is states "vboxvideo" and another "device" section that stated "card0" as identifier and "nvidia" as "driver". Finally under the section "Screen" it says "device" as "Card0" and unders "modes" is sayd something like "nvidia-auto-detect". The problem: X won?t start when using "Card0" as device. It Failes to load module "record" and it failes to load module "xtrap". Then it stated "no devices detected". Then: Fatal server error, no screens found. When I revert back to "Generic Video Card" as the device in the screen section, X will start. But it starts just Xterm, not gnome. Not sure if that is as designed, as I?am a newbie. I can however, start IPS from X. Am I suppposed to use the Nvidia driver directly? (this is what the additions added, so I would expect it) Or is this "Generic Video Card" the virtualized driver I need to use? Can anyone comment on what to do? Input would be greatly appreciated. thanks ! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
