Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 20:00:49 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running X11 in a VirtualBox VM Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412211959400.33367@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <87lhm0y7ul.fsf@elk.localnet> References: <87lhm0y7ul.fsf@elk.localnet>
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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
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