From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 22 03:00:58 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 22D87EB6 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 03:00:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C56CD3E91 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 03:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id sBM30njw037884 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 21 Dec 2014 20:00:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) with ESMTP id sBM30nWE037881; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 20:00:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 20:00:49 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Carl Johnson Subject: Re: Running X11 in a VirtualBox VM In-Reply-To: <87lhm0y7ul.fsf@elk.localnet> Message-ID: References: <87lhm0y7ul.fsf@elk.localnet> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (BSF 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 21 Dec 2014 20:00:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 03:00:58 -0000 On Sun, 21 Dec 2014, Carl Johnson wrote: > I had been running X11 inside of a FreeBSD VM under VirtualBox, but it > refuses to run after the last upgrade a few days ago. The only error is > that it can't open /usr/local/lib/dri/vboxvideo_dri.so. The file > doesn't exist so that isn't surprising, but why is it necessary now? I > don't really expect high performance, but I want something to run for > testing. I did try booting the same system onto hardware and it ran > fine with my Radeon card. The video drivers include xf86-video-vesa, > but it insists on trying to run the vboxvideo driver that doesn't exist. > I did try booting with vboxguest and vboxservice disabled, but there was > no change. > > The system is FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE and here are a few of the possibly > relevant packages: > virtualbox-ose-additions-4.3.20_1 > xf86-video-ati-7.5.0 > xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3_4 > xorg-7.7_1 > xorg-drivers-7.7_2 > > Is there some way to run this with software rendering? Please let me > know if there is more information needed. Thanks for any ideas. I had to add this line to ServerLayout: Section "ServerLayout" Option "AIGLX" "Off" # disable AIGLX for VirtualBox Additions EndSection