Blank screen - Unity is not supported

[las]

Drivers are upto date.

Attaching guest logs.

I am not too sure i need to run the following command everytime to share files b/w host and guest.

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sudo mount -t vboxsf <shared_folder_name> ~/host

[Perryg]

Since this is a laptop does the GPU on the host have a power saver? One graphics to save power and one higher to afford the 3D rendering?

[las]

another issue:

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las@las-ubu:~/host$ sudo mount -t vboxsf shared ~/host
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Protocol error

my laptop doesn't have a gpu, it uses processor's inbuilt graphics. as i said earlier, i also have a dual monitor setup. powersaver mode is off too.

[Perryg]

Gessss lets get the first one fixed first. The new error is a protocol error due to the command not being right. hat is another thing and a different ticket please.

[Perryg]

Well at this point the guest is being presented everything that it needs but is failing to switch over to the VBox 3D acceleration. All install logs show that 3D is installed and available so it has to be something in the guest. Give me the exact name of the install ISO and I will see what happens here.

[las]

ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-i386.iso
VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.12.iso
VirtualBox-4.3.12-93733-Win.exe

Thanks.

[Perryg]

OK give me some time to finish the project I am on now and I will see what I can find.

[loukingjr]

At the risk of repeating myself…

FWIW I don't think 'buntus 14.04, 14.10 etc will run on 4.3.12. they use the 1.17 xserver.

At least they won't on a OSX host and someone with a Windows host was complaining they couldn't use the latest 'buntus because they were stuck on 4.3.12 because of the security issues.

[Perryg]

I installed the same version and will detail the process in a minute, but the default version of 14.04.1 still used 1.15.1 and should work in 4.3.12. Plus Xorg shows that it is accepting his build. IIRC 1.17 started at 14.10 but I could be wrong as well.

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ubuntu@ubuntu-14:~$ Xorg -version

X.Org X Server 1.15.1
Release Date: 2014-04-13
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-37-generic i686 Ubuntu

Ubuntu-14.04-32-novtx.png (69.11 KiB) Viewed 2476 times

Steps are as follows:

1) create the guest and only enable 3D and set vRam to 32MB and select the install source. ( I did turn off VT-x for this test but you would not )
2) on boot and clicking install only selected to upgrade packages during install and add 3d party drivers leaving everything else set to default.
3) rebooted and opened a terminal at which time is installed dkms build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
4) selected the insert guest additions from the device tab and ran the install in terminal.
5) rebooted and there you see the results.

Note: I don't know what else you may have done but the above should work and if it does not then it must be something about your host that is stopping it.

[las]

Should I choose to install updates and 3rd party apps during installation?

Should I do ctrl alt f1 to open terminal?

[Perryg]

Well the proper way would be (host+F1) so it works on the guest but are you saying that you do not even have the unity launcher on first install after a reboot?

[las]

yes. so far i had to install gnome and use that for all this pipe cleaning. The only difference could be i never chose to install 3rd party apps but am not sure how significant it is.

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las@las-ubu:~$ Xorg -version

X.Org X Server 1.15.1
Release Date: 2014-04-13
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-70-generic i686 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux las-ubu 3.13.0-45-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 13 19:37:48 UTC 2015 i686
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-45-generic root=UUID=be468708-d98f-45d3-a8ff-9fd89b0ce69b ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Build Date: 10 December 2014  06:16:10PM
xorg-server 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.6 (For technical support please see http://www.ubuntu.com/support) 
Current version of pixman: 0.30.2
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.

[loukingjr]

my fault. the switch occurred with the 14.10 versions and the version changed to 1.16 not to 1.17. Not sure what I was looking at.

I'll hush now.

[las]

after rebooting, i quickly did a ctrl+f1 to login to terminal. i dont know how to access the GAs from terminal. i tried cd /media, cd /mnt - nothing contains that.

Please help.

[Perryg]

The drive may not be mounted in the tty session. You need to mount it first then run from the mounted folder with sudo.