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.
Linux – get full video capabilities in Arch Linux guest on Virtual Box
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Best Answer
When I try to enable 2d video acceleration I get this warning:
So it seems 2d acceleration is not available if you run virtual Linux machines.