On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 16:08, David Liebman<[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to get a Windows XP Guest on a Linux Host to use 3d > acceleration. Is there anywhere I can find a document showing what the > minimum host requirements are? I have a laptop with a ATI graphics card. > I use the radeon driver and I can get compiz to work to some degree, so > I thought I'd try 3d on vbox. > > I have a working XP guest and a certain application that I'd like to see > run (a game) but it never runs. I get a pop-up on the screen that says > that drawing surfaces cannot be initialized, and that I should change my > resolution to something lower, but the game still doesn't work at the > lower res. I think the message is specific to that program, not to XP. > > I have tried changing the "video memory" to 128, and though the vbox > still runs, the game does not. I am using vbox 3.0.2 and the > VBoxGuestAdditions that came with that version. I have tried updating > directx. Maybe I have misunderstood the entire problem. If so hopefully > I have come to the right place and someone can set me straight. >
To get DIrect3D working on a Guest (assuming thats what you have) you need to install the guest additions in safe mode. After that run directxdiag (or something like that) from start -> run and see if the direct3D tests run. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
