On 21 February 2013 10:14, Imran Chaudhry <ichaud...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
I tried getting good video performance in a guest under kvm about 1 year ago, and it was way too slow. I thought I would mention it, in case you thought it was worth a try too. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
