Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:02:20 -0500 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, vbox@FreeBSD.org Cc: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Virtualbox UI and remote X clients Message-ID: <A02E5D3C-FBE1-44F6-9806-E2AFCAC9B221@FreeBSD.org>
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Folks, It would appear that ever since 3.2.8_1 of virtualbox-ose, a number of = additions were made to unconditionally enable some kind of hardware = acceleration in the UI. This completely breaks the UI with a variety of QT errors, when running = on a remote X11 displays, so far I've tested X11.app and XQuartz.app on = OSX, cygwin/X on Windows 7/XP, and even an Xvnc server running on a = FreeBSD/amd64 box. It looks like it was this commit: revision 1.27 date: 2010/09/30 12:51:00; author: decke; state: Exp; lines: +2 -0 - Add 2D acceleration support for Windows Guests - Bump PORTREVISION This needs to be made into an OPTION (default on or off, I don't care), = but as it stands, the UI is unusable on apparently anything but a local = X11 display -- which most machines, holding a number of vbox images, are = unlikely to have. -aDe
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