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#1 2010-01-08 13:39:15
- skwid
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Windows 7 Guest on Arch Host
This is not a showstopper, but more of a curiosity. I have recently installed Virtualbox on my Arch machine and installed Windows 7. I installed Guest additions and can enable 3D acceleration but the 2D acceleration option is greyed out.
Couple of things I am running into: My video card is a Radeon X600, the rv380 chipset. I am using the open source Radeon Driver, but I can only enable 24 bit in xorg.conf. If I enable 32bit, it errors out and says it not supported. Direct rendering is enabled as grep informs, etc...
My machine is farily good, but maybe my settings just aren't correct. Any insight into this would be appreciated.
Thanks,
J
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#2 2010-01-09 04:42:22
- hunterthomson
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Re: Windows 7 Guest on Arch Host
It is grayed out on my VirtualBox Windows7 also. However, the box is checked and it says it is enabled. I think that it is on by default. Maybe it just has to be on for window7 and that is why it is unchangeable.
I too am on the xf86-video-ati -All stable packages R600-GPU
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#3 2010-01-09 06:16:51
- Mikko777
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Re: Windows 7 Guest on Arch Host
I have 2d accel enabled but 3d accel not working 
catalyst driver and vbox_bin 
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#4 2010-01-09 17:36:11
- skwid
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Re: Windows 7 Guest on Arch Host
Yeah it's weird. Anyway I don't even know if it's possible to get AERO working on virtualbox. I may try vmware and see if it works better for me.
I've checked everything but I'll give it another shot later on and I'll report back.
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#5 2010-01-09 19:52:27
- loafer
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Re: Windows 7 Guest on Arch Host
Aero isn't supported in virtualbox yet as far as I know. Virtualbox does not use your video card directly, so it doesn't really matter if you have an intel, ati or nvidia card, and it does not use your xorg.conf.
I don't use vmware although they have stuff on their Knowledge Base:
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