Linux – get full video capabilities in Arch Linux guest on Virtual Box

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I'm trying out arch linux on my win7 host on a VB and I have it installed just fine, the problem is that when I try to use gnome-shell it goes back to fallback mode because it detects that my video drivers aren't capable of rendering it. Since it's a VM I know it's not detecting my actual video card but I'd like to know if it's possible to get full 2d/3d video support so I can test the OS properly in the VM. I installed the virtualbox-archlinux-additions package and I added the vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo modules to my rc.conf file and it's working fine I believe.

Best Answer

When I try to enable 2d video acceleration I get this warning:

On the Display page, you have 2D Video Acceleration enabled. As 2D Video Acceleration is supported for Windows guests only, this feature will be disabled.

So it seems 2d acceleration is not available if you run virtual Linux machines.

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