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Habemus 3D on VirtualBox

Posted by Mad at 2:09 pm in Guides, Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu, Miscellaneous, Virtualization |

I can finally say: "Habemus 3D on VirtualBox". E 'stata dura, but the satisfaction is even greater. These additions compared to previous post:

Nat service network of virtual machine, not host interface (not working, and have not yet managed to understand why);
enable port 6000 for 'X forwarding on the host machine, in my ubuntu / etc / gdm / gdm.conf:
DisallowTCP = true # (comment this line);
DisallowTCP = false (insert the other);
in the guest machine in the shell, type: xhost + local: (used to enable the X connection to all local users).

That's it! Un bel et volilà glxinfo:

Update 8/02/2008:

Sux install (sudo apt-get install sux);
sux, type in the shell, enter the password and enter the root (it helps to avoid an Xlib error because you try to log in as root to an X server to another user);

Finally here's a screenshot of the root of KDE4 in VirtualBox with 3D enabled:

and the desktop with KDE4 transparencies:

22 comments for "Habemus 3D on VirtualBox"

# 1 Gijs said:
February 7 2008 at 3:05 pm
Hello,
I am very interested in this project. You also have an English version of this text?
I do not speak Italian very well.

# 2 Mad said:
February 7 2008 at 3:13 pm
Hi Gijs,
there is a translate link on the page. If you click the little UK flag there, you get a version in English. It is not perfect, but quite readable ...

# 3 Filo said:
February 7 2008 at 3:22 pm
You could write a guide on how you managed to run everything? Or what packages are served through ..

# 4 leo said:
February 7 2008 at 3:38 pm
I do not know if it can work but, in the case of host interface is enabled, try running the command
xhost + [IP guest]
on the host machine.
Hello

# 5 Mad said:
February 7 2008 at 3:40 pm
Hello thread,
You have to follow what I wrote in my previous post and to integrate with it.

# 6 Mad has said:
February 7 2008 at 3:44 pm
Hello leo,
try to follow your advice, but I do not think is the right way because in the case of host interface can not even connect via ssh ...

# 7 Linux Boxes Etc. »Blog Archive» Parallels enters the repository of Ubuntu, said:
February 7 2008 at 3:44 pm
[...] E 'appeared in the ubuntu repositories of Parallels Workstation 2.2 the well-known software virtualization. To enable the repository just enabled the repository software archive.canonical.com / partner in the "Third Party Software" option "Software Sources". This version of Parallels is just a trial version that expires after 15 days and will need to purchase a license (about € 40). Or is that VirtualBox is opensource and optionally you can enable 3D acceleration. [...]

# 8 Mad said:
February 7 2008 at 3:47 pm
Thanks for reporting,
try it. You've already tried? What do you think?

# 9 Filo said:
February 7 2008 at 3:48 pm
Not yet ..

# 10 leo said:
February 7 2008 at 4:10 pm
@ mad
if not you then ssh works modifuche was wrong with my script

# 11 Mad has said:
February 7 2008 at 4:17 pm
Look at your script, I just added the option to start automatically VirtualBox and, of course, my hostname.

# 12 toroseduto said:
7 February 2008 at 10:08 pm
I'm trying some distributions unstable with VirtualBox on windows vista, you can also go to enable 3d acceleration?

# 13 Mad has said:
7 February 2008 at 10:35 pm
I do not think so, this method uses OpenGL. The guest machine uses 3D acceleration for the resources of the host. To view I think you should use VMware fusion or Parallels Workstation.
Hello!

# 14 Filo said:
8 February 2008 at 5:00 pm
Believe that we can be able to virtualize windows with 3d acceleration?

# 15 Mad has said:
8 February 2008 at 5:33 pm
In theory yes, but technically it is very difficult since it would translate the instructions of DirectX in OpenGL. If some crazy we can ...

# 16 Filo said:
8 February 2008 at 10:02 pm
mmm ... I was interested in what try to take a look around ...

# 17 Filo said:
8 February 2008 at 10:11 pm
However I do not think you can .. at least for now ...

# 18 Filo said:
February 17 2008 at 11:03 AM
Hello,
I tried your guide, we can not, give me this error:
"CRError (nomemacchina): Need to know glstub environment variable"
Premesso che nella macchina guest ho messo una hardy e ho editato il file /etc/enviroment aggiungendo “GLSTUB = :7000″
If someone has to help me ...

# 19 Mad has said:
17 February 2008 at 1:57 pm
Weird! The error message clearly indicates that you have not set the variable in the file glstub environment. However missing quotation marks in your host name before: 7000, is a failure to wordpress or not you have just made?
Another question: Did you run the daemon stub (as root: stub-daemon) on the host machine?
Let me know how it went ...
Hello!

# 20 Filo said:
18 February 2008 at 6:04 pm
Maybe depends on the addition of guest VirtualBox. I have tried everything and Gutsy work with Hardy install (the guest addition) but seems not work. I do not know ...

# 21 Richie said:
8 October 2008 at 7:22 am
English speakers: Go to the Italian version of the page and translate with Google Translate instead of using the UK Flag. The results are much easier to understand.