[mdlug] Problems with virtualbox, fedora 15, gnome 3

[Brian Brodsky]

On 8/21/2011 11:35 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> Quoting Brian Brodsky<brianbrodsky at ameritech.net>:
>
>> I have installed on my windows 7 laptop VirtualBox 4.1.2. I deleted my
>> fedora 14 guest machine and created a fedora 15 guest machine. When I
>> did this gnome 3 went to fallback mode. I installed the linux guest
>> additions and then gnome 3 ran. I also disabled selinux. But any
>> programs seemed extremely slow. The os is fine because when I logged
>> into KDE desktop KDE programs ran fine. Gnome programs under KDE were
>> still unresponsive. I then forced fallback mode and the gnome desktop
>> and all apps seems fine. However, in the KDE desktop gnome apps still
>> are either very slow or unresponsive. Does anybody know how I can get
>> gnome 3 to run properly?
> I'm not at my regular computer so I can't lookup the details but there
> is a minimum version of VirtualBox required for GNOME3 *Shell* [the
> default interface, vs. "Fallback"] to work correctly.
>
> Generally it sounds like you Virtual Box VM is not correctly, or
> effectively, providing video acceleration.  GNOME3 Shell requires
> OpenGL acceleration [which is really *not* the same thing as "3d
> acceleration"; although people tend to conflate the terms].  I have no
> idea why the applications would be slow under KDE as well expect that
> (a) they are still attempting to use the same Cairo/rendering model
> that would be used by Shell [doubtful] or there is actually some
> timeout issue occurring accessing gsettings, d-bus, etc...  If you run
> a GNOME application from the command-line in another DE where it is
> unresponsive do you see it spewing any error messages?
>
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Version 4.1.2 is the current version of VirtualBox. I ran in KDE from 
konsole gnome-terminal. Did not get any errors but was unable to type 
any commands into gnome-terminal. Only thing I could do was close it. 
There were no errors in konsole.