Yes, it's a known issue. Please search the list archives for a more
detailed explanation and the current workaround. We've been pressuring
the VBox developers to fix this for 6 months, but thus far, they have
not done so.
On 9/4/12 11:38 AM, Arthur Huillet wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get VirtualGL 2.3.1 to work with VirtualBox 4.1.20. I followed
> the manual's instructions - make the faker libs setuid root, start the VM with
> the two commandlines suggested.
>
> The VirtualGL setup works, my user has no problem using VirtualGL for regular
> applications, but VirtualBox complains that "the 3D support of the host is not
> working properly".
>
> Is that a known problem in any way? Should I use a specific version of
> VirtualBox?
>
> If not, what steps can I take to solve the issue?
>
> Below is some information:
>
> $ vglrun glxinfo | grep vendor
> server glx vendor string: VirtualGL
> client glx vendor string: VirtualGL
> OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
>
> $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
>
> NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 304.43 Sun Aug 19 20:14:03
> PDT
> 2012 GCC version: gcc version 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4) (GCC)
>
> $ vglrun /opt/VirtualGL/bin/glxspheres64
> Polygons in scene: 62464
> Visual ID of window: 0x21
> Context is Direct
> OpenGL Renderer: Tesla S2050/PCIe/SSE2
> 143.212077 frames/sec - 159.824678 Mpixels/s
>
> So the general setup is working...
>
> $ ls -lh /usr/lib64/lib{dl,rr}faker.so
> -rwsr-xr-x. 1 root root 5.7K Jun 12 08:02 /usr/lib64/libdlfaker.so
> -rwsr-xr-x. 1 root root 921K Jun 12 08:02 /usr/lib64/librrfaker.so
>
> $ vglrun +v VirtualBox -startvm DemoWin32
> [VGL] NOTICE: Replacing dlopen("/lib64/libdl.so.2") with
> dlopen("libdlfaker.so")
> [VGL] NOTICE: Replacing dlopen("/lib64/libdl.so.2") with
> dlopen("libdlfaker.so")
> [VGL] NOTICE: Replacing dlopen("/lib64/libdl.so.2") with
> dlopen("libdlfaker.so")
> [VGL] NOTICE: Replacing dlopen("/lib64/libdl.so.2") with
> dlopen("libdlfaker.so")
> [VGL] NOTICE: Replacing dlopen("/lib64/libdl.so.2") with
> dlopen("libdlfaker.so")
> [VGL] NOTICE: Replacing dlopen("/lib64/libdl.so.2") with
> dlopen("libdlfaker.so")
> [VGL] NOTICE: Replacing dlopen("/lib64/libdl.so.2") with
> dlopen("libdlfaker.so")
> [VGL] Shared memory segment ID for vglconfig: 2097154
> [VGL] VirtualGL v2.3.1 64-bit (Build 20120612)
> [VGL] Opening local display :0
>
> and then I get the dreaded error message from vbox.
>
> Help appreciated. Thanks
>
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