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Hello:

I've installed various Ubuntu variants in VirtualBox without a problem. X "just works" after it's installed, no futzing about necessary.

I finally got Gentoo running - terminal only. I installed Xorg, but X cannot detect any monitors or any drivers and exits.

Xorg is looking for:

Vboxvideo
vesa
fbdev

I know Vboxvideo is in the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso, but I can't run the script on the .iso without X. Even if I could, Gentoo doesn't use DKMS so the script couldn't install the VBox video driver. I can't find the video driver itself by looking inside the .iso from the host OS, so I can't just copy it over either. In the guest OS, at least vesa should "just be there" but it isn't.

These drivers can be compiled in the kernel but I can't see anywhere that will write the vesa and fbdev drivers into the kernel, the options are all for ATI, NVIDIA, Intel, SiS, VIA, etc.

I've followed:

http://www.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages# ... nsfound.22

so it really looks like a missing driver problem - but at least vesa should always be there regardless of what's configured in the kernel (and I can't find the option in menuconfig to install it anyway).

Host: Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit, VirtualBox 4.0.6, guest: Gentoo with 2.6.36-gentoo-r8 kernel

Thank you.

I would follow this guide myself http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Virtualbox_Guest

Excellent, thank you - sorry I didn't find that first.

I did manage to get the VESA driver working by following http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Framebuffer but the page you linked to is much better (native VirtualBox driver!) I'll be giving that a try right now, thanks.