On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:58:24 +0000, Sam Morris wrote: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:16:32 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> Le samedi 04 août 2012 à 18:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : >>> This is expected in the absence of 3D acceleration, which is not yet >>> supported in qemu so far as I know. VirtualBox is supposed to support >>> it, but a standard installation presumably won't pull in the necessary >>> paravirtual drivers in the guest. >> >> At least with squeeze, this used to work, so I don’t see why it >> wouldn’t anymore. >> >> However I don’t know whether the vbox paravirtualized drivers are >> whitelisted in gnome-session-check-accelerated. > > The string "Chromium" is not listed in > /usr/share/gnome-session/hardware- compatibility, so the VirtualBox > guest additions are neither white nor blacklisted. However, in my > experience, gnome-shell 3.4 is unusable on VirtualBox. I filed a bug > with the details at <https://www.virtualbox.org/ > ticket/9581>. > > In case it matters, I use Debian on two desktops, both inside VirtualBox > VMs running on top of Windows 7 x64. Both systems have ATI graphics > cards (one a Radeon HD 4980, and the other a Radeon HD 5850). > > OTOH, the software rendering in both the Fedora 17 and GNOME 3.4 Live > CDs works perfectly inside VirtualBox (well, at least for a few minutes > of testing). In both cases the renderer is reported as "Gallium 0.4 on > llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)". However, these Live CDs do not include the > VirtualBox guest additions, and I have no idea how to enable Gallium on > Debian, so I can't test on my regular VM that has VirtualBox's regular > 2d acceleration set up. If someone can point me in the right direction > then I'll test it right now!
I figured it out. The instructions at <http://www.mesa3d.org/ llvmpipe.html> seem to work. I had some difficulty getting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to stick, however... setting it from a script in /etc/X11/ Xsession.d doesn't work as it's reset by the time I log in. Eventually I logged in to a virtual console, set the variable, fired up X by hand and ran gnome-shell. The result is very buggy. I don't know if that's because mesa 8.0.4 (or one of its build dependencies) is too old, or whether something is being built wrong. -- Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2012.08.05.12.54...@robots.org.uk
