Re: [Re-send] GNOME Shell under VirtualBox

[Narcis Garcia <informatica actiu net>]

I se-send you an issue I had vith VM too.
You can try if it's a virtual CPU problem Xorg too.

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Assumpte: Re: [Qemu-discuss] No Live desktop since Ubuntu 14.10
Data: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:40:32 +0100
De: Narcis Garcia <informatica actiu net>
A: qemu-discuss nongnu org

I've found the problem: -cpu cannot be qemu32 or qemu64 as default.
Those CPUs make Ubuntu i386 fail since version 14.10 of Ubuntu or since
Xorg 1.16


El 22/10/15 a les 11:03, Narcis Garcia ha escrit:
> I've tried all the graphics card options with Qemu (no virt-manager):
> -vga [std|cirrus|vmware|qxl|xenfb|tcx|cg3|none]
>
> but all versions of Ubuntu with Xorg 1.16 or newer fail Live-CD desktop
> sessions.
> Failure tests with Lubuntu, Ubuntu-Mate, Ubuntu-Gnome {14.10, 15.04 and
> 15.10}. Success tests with any Ubuntu upto 14.04
>
> Once the system is installed, graphic session work right.
> In real hardware both Live & installed work right.
> I tried with VirtualBox and any Ubuntu-Live work fine.
>
> Does anybody know why this problem and how to avoid it?
>
>
> Thanks.



El 12/11/15 a les 14:29, Michael Thayer ha escrit:
> [Re-sending this as it does not seem to be arriving.  Please excuse me
> if it is delivered twice.]
>
> Hello,
>
> I am currently trying to work out why GNOME Shell from Fedora 23 hangs
> before reaching the desktop when I start it under VirtualBox with 3D
> pass-through enabled.  I am guessing that we implement something wrong,
> or do not implement something that GNOME Shell needs, but I would love
> some clues as to how I can identify what that is.  When I log the OpenGL
> commands we pass through it is a very long list (well over 100000
> entries), too long to go through without an idea what to look for.  It
> keeps on sending commands until at some point after several minutes it
> gives up and exits.
>
> Clearly debugging this via ssh is not a problem in this set-up.  I am
> more than happy to provide additional feedback (I did not want to create
> an entry in your bug tracker as it is most likely a problem on our side).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael