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etienne

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Registered: 2008-12-27

Posts: 5

2d/3d acceleration in virtualized machine

Hello to all the people of this forum!

Independendly of installing the newest virtualization solutions like vmplayer 3 or virtualbox 3.0.8, i get the following problem:

Using arch as host and as guest, the game xmoto, for example, is very slow (unplayable). The guest tools are correctly installed in both virtualizers.

Using the new Ubuntu 9.10 as guest, all these games work much much faster.

What am I doing wrong? I have searched in this forum and also in Google but could not find any solution.

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: 2d/3d acceleration in virtualized machine

The VirtualBox Guest Additions installer does not put some files in the right place on Arch.  You have to create a few symlinks.  See http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 69#p547569

Last edited by Wintervenom (2009-10-30 20:46:38)

etienne

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Registered: 2008-12-27

Posts: 5

Re: 2d/3d acceleration in virtualized machine

Thank you Wintervenom,

I had said in my last post that I was searching in this forum. But the thread you gave me didn't help me forward... I've tryed it before posting :-(

Anyway, thank you Wintervenom, not only fow answering, but also because you brought me the idea this may be related to the actual kernel.

I will give a feedback as soon as I know something newer.

Merci again :-)

Etienne

some-guy94

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 360

Re: 2d/3d acceleration in virtualized machine

You need to enable 3d acceleration in VirtualBox, and you probably will need to bring the video ram up

etienne

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Registered: 2008-12-27

Posts: 5

Re: 2d/3d acceleration in virtualized machine

Hi some-guy94 :-)

Both checkboxes concerning 3d acceleration are active, with vmplayer and also with virtualbox. For the last one, I've also spent 128 MB of graphical memory, but no way to make that f****g xmoto working in an arch guest with a reasonable speed.

Ubuuuuuuuuuuntuuuu, one night before halloween, what's wrong here :-)

Lots of love to all

Eddi

Last edited by etienne (2009-10-30 21:47:27)