unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

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pkrupp
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Re: unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

Post by pkrupp »

I am having the same problem with Unity and Gnome 3.
FutureHack wrote:I can confirm this behavior as well.

VB:4.1.4(latest version)
Host: OSX Lion
Guest OS: Ubuntu Server 11.10

I have 3D acceleration with 64MB allocated to graphics. I can log in (I installed the desktop) to unity. when I try and open an application, such as terminal, it opens, but I can not see it on the desktop. when I click to see the different desktops, I can see the app is open in the preview of each desktop.

I installed the latest guest editions as well, so I have that as well.

When I log into Unity 2D everything works as expected.
I have exactly the same problem except the host is Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8, the guest is Ubuntu Desktop 11.10. It is a fresh install with the correct guest additions. Unity 2d and Gnome classic (without effects) work fine.
Jaredt66
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Re: unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

Post by Jaredt66 »

I'm not able to run Ubuntu with 3d acceleration either. Host is 64b Windows 7. I've got dual AMD Radeon HD 6450s. Logging into Unity results in fallback to Unity 2d, logging into Gnome 3 results in fallback to Gnome Classic. I've tried both the windows drivers and the Catalyst drivers.
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Re: unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

Post by SuperflyJon »

I also had 3d acceleration working with 11.04 and now not with 11.10. When I run
/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
I see that the opengl driver is now reported as "Mesa" where as it was reported as "Chromium" in 11.04.

Jon
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Re: unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

Post by kurtguenther »

I'm having similar issues, I think:

host: Win 7 64-bit Dell Precision M6500
guest: ubuntu 11.10
Vitual host: 4.1.4 + host additions.


For me, the vb menu tab that appears at the bottom when in full screen mode, so I couldn't switch to another monitor. When I switch to Unity 2D, it works. I can do this in 2D and then switch back to 3D as a work around.
Jaredt66
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Re: unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

Post by Jaredt66 »

here is what I see when running "/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p"

OpenGL vendor string: Humper
OpenGL renderer string: Chromium
OpenGL version string: 0.0 Chromium 1.9

Not software rendered: yes
Not blacklisted: yes
GLX fbconfig: yes
GLX texture from pixmap: yes
GL npot or rect textures: no
GL vertex program: no
GL fragment program: no
GL vertex buffer object: no
GL framebuffer object: no
GL version is 1.4+: no

Unity 3D supported: no
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Re: unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

Post by Perryg »

@Jaredt66,
Post the Ubuntu 11.10 guests log file (as an attachment)

Here in my test of an 11.10 guest

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ubuntu@ubuntu-Main:~$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
OpenGL vendor string:   Humper
OpenGL renderer string: Chromium
OpenGL version string:  2.1 Chromium 1.9

Not software rendered:    yes
Not blacklisted:          yes
GLX fbconfig:             yes
GLX texture from pixmap:  yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program:        yes
GL fragment program:      yes
GL vertex buffer object:  yes
GL framebuffer object:    yes
GL version is 1.4+:       yes

Unity 3D supported:       yes
ubuntu@ubuntu-Main:~$ 
javageek
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Re: unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

Post by javageek »

Hi,

I am trying to use Ubuntu 11.10 with 3D acceleration on OS X Lion (10.7.2). I installed VirtualBox 4.1.4 and everything works when the system doesn't have the 3D acceleration enabled, but is unusable when it does (windows don't refresh even though they're there). Here is what unity reports:

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$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
OpenGL vendor string:   Humper
OpenGL renderer string: Chromium
OpenGL version string:  2.1 Chromium 1.9

Not software rendered:    yes
Not blacklisted:          yes
GLX fbconfig:             yes
GLX texture from pixmap:  yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program:        yes
GL fragment program:      yes
GL vertex buffer object:  yes
GL framebuffer object:    yes
GL version is 1.4+:       yes

Unity 3D supported:       yes
Here are the versions reported by VBoxControl:

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$ sudo VBoxControl version
Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions Command Line Management Interface Version 4.1.4
(C) 2008-2011 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

4.1.4r74291
(I had to open workspaces, and blindly copy that from an open terminal).


Any help is appreciated.
stchen
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Re: unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

Post by stchen »

Dear all,

You can follow the steps below to install the guest additions program on your ubuntu 11.10:

1) Create a temp directory in your home directory
2) Copy the whole file into the temp directory from /media/VBo..
3) Sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.0.0-12-generic-pae
? *Actually you get to make sure what kernel version on your machine
? *After that, make sure your get “linux-headers-3.0.0-12-generic-pae” tree in “usr/src”
4) Install the guest additions utility.

Please let me know if you get any problem for that …

ST
Jaredt66
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Re: unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

Post by Jaredt66 »

stchen wrote:Dear all,

You can follow the steps below to install the guest additions program on your ubuntu 11.10:

1) Create a temp directory in your home directory
2) Copy the whole file into the temp directory from /media/VBo..
3) Sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.0.0-12-generic-pae
? *Actually you get to make sure what kernel version on your machine
? *After that, make sure your get “linux-headers-3.0.0-12-generic-pae” tree in “usr/src”
4) Install the guest additions utility.

Please let me know if you get any problem for that …

ST
It doesn't appear that linux-headers-3.0.0-12-generic-pae is available for x86_64
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Re: unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

Post by Perryg »

PAE is for 32-bit. You should be careful when following advise and make sure you have a good backup. One way to assure fairly decent advise is to look at the users post count.
Jaredt66
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Re: unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

Post by Jaredt66 »

Perryg wrote:PAE is for 32-bit. You should be careful when following advise and make sure you have a good backup. One way to assure fairly decent advise is to look at the users post count.
Very true, it's too easy to take a snapshot before making any changes.

He may be onto something however, I do get this message every time I've tried to add Guest Additions:

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The headers for the current running kernel were not found. If the following
module compilation fails then this could be the reason.
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Re: unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

Post by Perryg »

There are three things that you need to actually install the guest additions.
For debian based OSes; dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic
You can look in the VirtualBox users manual and see what you need to do as well.
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Re: unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

Post by Sasquatch »

This is the very reason I made the Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions + Xorg config. For users that have no idea what they are doing. Fits the situation perfectly from the looks of this.
Read the Forum Posting Guide before opening a topic.
VirtualBox FAQ: Check this before asking questions.
Online User Manual: A must read if you want to know what we're talking about.
Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions
Howto: Use Shared Folders on Linux Guest
See the Tutorials and FAQ section at the top of the Forum for more guides.
Try searching the forums first with Google and add the site filter for this forum.
E.g. install guest additions site:forums.virtualbox.org

Retired from this Forum since OSSO introduction.
lmuller
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Re: unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

Post by lmuller »

Same problem here.

Specs:
VBox: 4.1.4 r74291
Host: Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Guest OS: Ubuntu Desktop 11.10

When I open an application, such as Firefox or Terminal, it opens, but I can not see it on the desktop. When I click to see the different desktops, I can see the application is open in the preview of each desktop.

I installed the latest guest additions as well.

I'm waiting for the bug fix so that I can use Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity 3D :wink:
irishespresso
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Re: unbuntu 11.10 guest editions do not work

Post by irishespresso »

I don't know about Debian, but for Ubuntu all one has to do is this:

sudo apt-get install dkms

The dkms package pulls in build-essential as a dependency and linux-headers-generic as a recommendation.
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