Is xf86-video-virtualbox required for Linux host/Windows guest?

[MarkKnecht]

Hi,
I am looking for documentation on the purpose and proper use of the xf86-video-virtualbox package. If I am running only Windows guests on a Linux host is it a requirement to have this driver in my host's xorg.conf file or is it just used in a Linux guest?

I looked in the 5.1.24 User Manual online but it's not called out there. (Or search isn't finding it.) Searching Google has resulted in too many problem reports, etc.

If someone can point me at the right info I'd very much appreciate it.

Thanks,
Mark

[Perryg]

"xf86-video-virtualbox" is not a native package for the official VirtualBox. IIRC Gentoo uses this on their build (fork) but we would have no idea of its use or requirements. Have you asked the maintainer of your package about it?

[MarkKnecht]

Thanks for the clarification. I have not asked the maintainer as of yet as I thought it was part of the main distribution. I will do that now.

I've used Virtualbox for a long time but am having problems right now with one Windows program. I have no reason to believe that the problem is really caused by VB but I had been running Gentoo stable (5.0.32) which didn't seem to require this package and in trying the testing version (5.1.24) it now does.

I'll go talk to them.

Thanks!