Opensuse 12.1 MS 5, is gnome 3 in virtualbox possible ?

manchette_fr · September 12, 2011, 10:30pm

Hello ;=)

i’m trying the live cd image of gnome opensuse 12.1 (milestone 5) on a virtual machine but virtualbox (4.1.2) gives me a fallback system instead of gnome 3.
Do you know if i can have a full gnome 3 as expected on a desktop with virtualbox ?
Thanks

please_try_again · September 12, 2011, 10:55pm

I haven’t tried but if it doesn’t work after enabling 3D and 2D acceleration in the virtual machine settings, then it won’t work, I guess.

malcolmlewis · September 12, 2011, 11:28pm

Hi
Funnily enough have just been loading virtualbox and the 12.1 M5 GNOME
Live CD to try it out. Had to crank up the video memory, but it’s
running ok. This system needs more memory…
http://paste.opensuse.org/11039840

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop
up 0:21, 3 users, load average: 1.74, 1.27, 0.73
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 280.13

manchette_fr · September 13, 2011, 8:42am

Hello

How much ram did you give to the vm ? I gave 1024 gb and it gives a system working but not gnome 3. With 2048 gb the machine is aborted . My desktop host pc has 4 gb available.

manchette_fr · September 13, 2011, 9:40am

Hello

How much ram did you give to the vm ? I gave 1024 gb and it gives a system working but not gnome 3.

With 2048 gb and 3D activation the machine is aborted , without 3 D i have the fall back system but not gnome 3 .

My desktop host pc has 4 gb available.

malcolmlewis · September 13, 2011, 1:35pm

Hi
I used 1GB of RAM. What about the display, I used 128MB? What graphics
card do you have in your system?

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop
up 14:35, 5 users, load average: 0.11, 0.17, 0.15
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 280.13

manchette_fr · September 13, 2011, 1:46pm

i have a geforce 7900 gs from nvidia , let me try with 2gb of ram and 128 mb for display : still the fall back system.
It might be the graphics card then.

gogalthorp · September 13, 2011, 4:39pm

Did you activate the 3D acceleration? Install the addon utilities? Note maybe the addon’s have not caught up with the new DE requirements??

malcolmlewis · September 13, 2011, 4:48pm

Hi
I have it working here, I have a lower spec machine, but a 8600GTS card
running the 280.13 driver.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop
up 17:47, 4 users, load average: 0.30, 0.21, 0.22
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 280.13

manchette_fr · September 13, 2011, 9:51pm

The add on utilities i’m not sure i added them, is this needed for gnome 3 ?

i’m using nouveau driver on my desktop pc.

When i enable 3 D the machine is aborted

please_try_again · September 13, 2011, 9:56pm

Yes. Here’s a script to install the latest ones:

Update VirtualBox-4.0 Extension Pack.

malcolmlewis · September 13, 2011, 9:59pm

Only for usb AFAIK

Ahh, then that may be the issue, you might need to install the NVidia
proprietary driver.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop
up 22:59, 4 users, load average: 2.06, 1.00, 0.51
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 280.13

manchette_fr · September 13, 2011, 10:10pm

Hi,
so i guess you copy/paste the last version in a text file. Then which name or extension do you give to this file ? how do you launch it ? thanks

please_try_again · September 13, 2011, 11:14pm

The name you give to the script doesn’t matter. Just call it updateVboxExt, put it in /usr/bin or ~/bin and make it executable:

chmod 755 /usr/bin/updateVboxExt

Then run:

sudo updateVboxExt

If the latest version of the Extension pack is already installed, the script will tell you and won’t install it again. As @malcolmlewis said, these extensions are only needed for USB support, but the graphic card and used graphic driver are the most relevant part.

gogalthorp · September 14, 2011, 3:47am

You need the add on to get the VM’s video drivers, You need that for 3D accel. Though VM’s 3D accel is not as good as the host. The host must also support 3D

please_try_again · September 14, 2011, 4:02am

**# vboxmanage list extpacks**
Extension Packs: 1
Pack no. 0:   Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
Version:      4.0.12
Revision:     72916
Description:  USB 2.0 Host Controller, VirtualBox RDP, PXE ROM with E1000 support.
VRDE Module:  VBoxVRDP
Usable:       true 
Why unusable:

**# find /usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/linux.amd64 -type f
**/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/linux.amd64/VBoxEhciRC.rc
/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/linux.amd64/VBoxPuelMain.so
/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/linux.amd64/VBoxVRDP.so
/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/linux.amd64/VBoxEhciR0.r0
/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/linux.amd64/VBoxEhciR3.so

manchette_fr · September 14, 2011, 1:29pm

with 280.13 of nvidia 's driver i still have the fall back system of gnome 3,

after sudoing the script (virtualbox closed ) :

sudo /usr/bin/updateVboxExt 
root's password:
/usr/bin/updateVboxExt: line 1: #! : commande introuvable
Extension Pack already installed

please_try_again · September 14, 2011, 2:15pm

That doesn’t look right:

But I couldn’t manage to reproduce this error. However if the extension pack is already installed, it should be listed with this command:

vboxmanage list extpacks

manchette_fr · September 14, 2011, 2:19pm

it is listed, extension pack version seems ok :


> vboxmanage list extpacks
Extension Packs: 1
Pack no. 0:   Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
Version:      4.1.2
Revision:     73507
Description:  USB 2.0 Host Controller, VirtualBox RDP, PXE ROM with E1000 support.
VRDE Module:  VBoxVRDP
Usable:       true 
Why unusable:

please_try_again · September 14, 2011, 2:42pm

Yes, it is installed … except that we don’t use the same version of VirtualBox. You seem to have this version:

zypper info VirtualBox
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


Information for package VirtualBox:

Repository: openSUSE:Virtualization
Name: virtualbox
Version: 4.1.2-1.1
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: obs://build.opensuse.org/Virtualization
Installed: No
Status: not installed
Installed Size: 23.7 MiB
Summary: VirtualBox is an Emulator
Description: 
VirtualBox is an extremely feature rich, high performance product
for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution
that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the
GNU Public License (GPL).

While I’m using the Oracle version:

 zypper info VirtualBox-4.0
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


Information for package VirtualBox-4.0:

Repository: @System
Name: VirtualBox-4.0
Version: 4.0.12_72916_openSUSE114-1
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: Oracle Corporation
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 114.7 MiB
Summary: Oracle VM VirtualBox
Description: 
VirtualBox is a powerful PC virtualization solution allowing
you to run a wide range of PC operating systems on your Linux
system. This includes Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, OpenBSD
and others. VirtualBox comes with a broad feature set and
excellent performance, making it the premier virtualization
software solution on the market.

It might be part of the problem (not sure) since these two versions are different (not just the version number AFAIK).