Re: [gentoo-user] run X.org inside VirtualBox

[Crístian Viana]

so you set VIDEO_CARDS="vesa"? just that? and INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard
mouse"? I'm using "virtualbox" on both variables and it's not working. I'll
try that as you said.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Crístian Viana
> <cristiandeives@×××××.com> wrote:
> > hi!
> > I'm running Gentoo inside VirtualBox (on a Windows host, if that matters)
> > and I can't make X.org work. when I try "X -configure" it says it can't
> load
> > the vboxvideo library. according to some Google searches, that library
> > really doesn't work with the newest X.org. if that's really true, is
> there
> > currently any combination of VirtualBox/X.org/Gentoo libraries to run
> X.org
> > inside VirtualBox?
> > I'm running ~x86, so now I have =x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.4,
> > =app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-3.1.0 (running at boot),
> > =x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox-3.1.0 and
> > =x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-3.1.0. when I run "X -configure", the
> > error log shows:
> > List of video drivers:
> >         vboxvideo
> > dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so: undefined symbol:
> > resVgaShared
> > (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so
> > (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (loader failed, 7)
> > any hep would be appreciated.
> > thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]
> >
>
>
> maybe you can start the X without using the vboxvideo driver. that is
> what i did. actually i did not know we have a vboxvideo driver, so i
> just used the vesa, and it works very well. i can even enable the 3d
> acceleration and play with compiz fusion ;)
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> David Shen
>
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>


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