Comments on: 3D Acceleration and Compiz Inside VirtualBox Guests

By: PCHelper.nl || Ubunto 10.10 Nvidia drivers

PCHelper.nl || Ubunto 10.10 Nvidia drivers — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:33:16 +0000

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By: Didrick

Didrick — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:31:24 +0000

I am running Linux Mint 9 Isadora as guest in VirtualBox on a Windows 7 host, been running it for a few weeks now and almost all the Compiz effects run smoothly, except for the cube. I can spin it, but it more than often tends to have a life of its own, jumping, spinning and bouncing like crazy making me lose control of it. This never happened to me when I ran Linux in dualboot with Windsows before. I wanted to run Linux in VirtualBox so that I could have either OS available to me at all times without the need of rebooting. I love running Linux like this but I would like to know if anyone else have experienced the cube having this kind of behaviour in VirtualBox before and if there’s a way to make it spin more smoothly?

By: chicago web developer

chicago web developer — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:21:03 +0000

Works now! The latest updates to virtual box guest additions fixed it so now there is fast 3D acceleration. I can now do all my web development and programming related stuff in geany/gvfs on ubuntu. Very nice…

By: ac

ac — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:12:55 +0000

I had 3D working on a kubuntu 9.10 guest under a OS X host on a MacBook Pro.
Shading, effects, etc working.
Now installed ubuntu 10.04 and can not activate 3D effects. Guest additions are installed, “Administration->Hardware Drivers” says “VirtualBox Guest Additions for Linux Module”, VirtualBox 3D is activated, so whats the problem?

By: Chicago Web Developer

Chicago Web Developer — Sat, 08 May 2010 01:22:38 +0000

Has anyone gotten this working with virtualbox on mac? I want to run ubuntu 10.4 with 3D acceleration in ubuntu but It wont find any drivers

By: alamati

alamati — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:58:20 +0000

Hi all,
I installed Ubuntu 10.04 in my macbook with VirtualBox, but I have one great problem, I don’t able to change resolution sharper that 800×600, in other hand, my original resolution in MacBook in 1280×800, and in full screen mode in VirtualBox, ubuntu has 800×600. Also in Monitors in Prefrences, I don’t change the resolution and my monitor in not detected. Please guide me.
Really thanks

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:10:23 +0000

Working perfectly on win 7 64 bit host
full compiz effects very snapy

ubuntu 9.10 guest
virtualbox ver 3.1.4 r57640

2 gig ram
q6600 quad
8800gtx ultra

By: Sootie

Sootie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:15:33 +0000

Care to share how you actually end up getting it to work Sean?

By: works

works — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:40:09 +0000

does your friend have on board motherboard based graphics acceleration that your motherboard doesnt maybe? check your direct x drivers unders windows 7 or the windows expierence score for information about your graphics capapibilities.

you have to install the virtual box guest os additions in ubunutu also.

By: works

works — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:37:45 +0000

has anyone gotten compiz to render through a rdp connection with vbox? thats how i got to this thread.

compiz works fine “locally” on a vbox hosted xubuntu install. i am trying to look at the screen via the built in hardware level virtual box rdp server with a localhost loopback.

it connects fine, shows the virtual box sytem bios and everything. but only shows the desktop background in the remote terminal.

the normal, virtualbox display works fine, and mouse / keyboard control works via remote desktop and locally too…

????