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Re: Wayland compositors in Vbox

Posted: 31. Jul 2017, 20:31
by test30
Do you maybe guys know the reasons VirtualBox not supporting some compositors?

for example Sway docs states that it does not work with VirtualBox

wiki.archlinux. org/index.php?title=Sway&oldid=483031#Using_VirtualBox

Re: Wayland compositors in Vbox

Posted: 31. Jul 2017, 20:44
by michael
VirtualBox only supports hardware acceleration under X11<1>, so Wayland compositors can generally be used without acceleration but not with it.

<1> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/X11Guest3D