It was loaded and was still slow. On resuming from saved state it was
actually non-responsive, not sure why.
I then installed Fedora 18 as a guest and with 3D acceleration
working, guest additions installed, it was still a bit slow. That was
using Gnome Shell/Gnome 3.
I gave up on getting Debian Squeeze working with Compiz under
VirtualBox. I tried lots of things (recompiled guest additions,
upgraded xserver from squeeze-backports, adding a missing symlink that
enabled the correct driver to be loaded etc).
I got to the Monty Python-esque point of using Google Translate on a
Russian forum that seemed to have the exact same situation as me. No
luck. On an Arch Linux forum thread there is mention of a known bug
with VirtualBox v4.2.6 and some users are running a patched xserver to
overcome it but I kinda ran outta steam for this problem.
It's forced me to look into Bluetile for tiling capabilities and that
might be a good thing but I miss the bling of Compiz.
I documented everything I tried so if anyone is interested I can pass
my notes over.
Thanks
On 9 February 2013 09:45, Alan Pope <alan.pope@???> wrote:
> On 08/02/13 21:55, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Popey. I am using the upstream VBox and upstream guest
>> additions with this.
>>
>> Today I tried Ubuntu 12.10 with the same Windows host and 3D
>> acceleration appears to work (although very slowly). My quick test was
>> to click the desktop switcher a few times which is "3D animated".
>>
>
> lsmod | grep vboxvideo
>
> Is the kernel module loaded? If not it will fall back to LLVM and be slow.
>
>
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