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subigo

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Registered: 2011-05-18

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Anyone get GNOME Shell working in Virtualbox yet?

The latest version of Virtualbox came out today and it's supposed to have 3D support for GNOME 3 now and I've heard of some people on other distros getting GNOME Shell working, but I'm not having any such luck. I did a fresh install of Arch tonight, just in case, but I still get fallback mode (after upgrading Virtualbox and enabling 3D support, guest additions, etc). This is the error I'm getting:

[root@sandbox ~]# gnome-shell --replace
failed to create drawable
(gnome-shell:1242): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to select the newly created GLX context
Window manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.

It's the same error that someone was getting here a few weeks ago: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=928760

However, with the Virtualbox upgrade, it's *supposed* to be running now, so I have no idea... So has anyone got this to work yet?

djgera

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From: Buenos Aires - Argentina

Registered: 2008-12-24

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Re: Anyone get GNOME Shell working in Virtualbox yet?

In guest:

ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri /usr/lib/dri

or if the directory /usr/lib/dri is present, then

ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/vboxvideo_dri.so /usr/lib/dri

Or use latest virtualbox-guest-additons package.

Enjoy!

Last edited by djgera (2011-05-25 17:25:09)

jinleileiking

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Registered: 2011-05-28

Posts: 51

Re: Anyone get GNOME Shell working in Virtualbox yet?

@djgera It worked !!!! thanks alot!!

jinleileiking

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Registered: 2011-05-28

Posts: 51

Re: Anyone get GNOME Shell working in Virtualbox yet?

But the response speed is very,very low...

Blind Tiger

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Registered: 2011-05-30

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Re: Anyone get GNOME Shell working in Virtualbox yet?

@djgera - thanks!  The symlink worked.  Lovely Gnome 3.0 loaded swiftly after logging out and back in.  Performance is identical to fallback mode, specifically, zippy!  Loving it...

@subigo - perhaps it's time to mark the thread [Solved] ... ;-)

Last edited by Blind Tiger (2011-07-09 22:05:22)

akshay2000

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From: Kanpur

Registered: 2011-08-01

Posts: 29

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Re: Anyone get GNOME Shell working in Virtualbox yet?

In guest:

ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri /usr/lib/dri

or if the directory /usr/lib/dri is present, then

ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/vboxvideo_dri.so /usr/lib/dri

Or use latest virtualbox-guest-additons package.

Enjoy!

Somehow, it fails to work for me, don't know why! I just did a fresh install of Arch on a VM inside VirtualBox. Then installed Gnome by pacman -Sf gnome (yeah, conflicts. Had to force!) But, it dropped to fallback mode! Now, how do I get the 3d support?

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Psykar

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Registered: 2010-12-20

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Re: Anyone get GNOME Shell working in Virtualbox yet?

At risk of stating the obvious (as I only just found it myself after trawling forums and finally running
gnome-shell --replace

I got an error message saying OpenGL couldn't communicate with host, perhaps you've forgotten to enable it.

Low and behold I'd forgotten to enable 3D acceleration in the VM's settings.

mcasperson

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 1

Re: Anyone get GNOME Shell working in Virtualbox yet?

A video of the process for Fedora 16 (although it should be similar for other distros) can be found at http://www.squidoo.com/enable-the-gnome … irtual-box