Bug 546166

Created attachment 377413 [details]
dmesg from VM

This is mostly that we don't have the vboxvideo driver packaged, I believe.

(In reply to comment #2)
> This is mostly that we don't have the vboxvideo driver packaged, I believe.  

Atm, vboxvideo driver uses vgabios, but of course if vboxvideo driver has been packaged it'd simplified things.

(In reply to comment #2)
> This is mostly that we don't have the vboxvideo driver packaged, I believe.  

Adam, Could you please clarify a bit how X server fetches information on the real EFI hardware?

is there a reason you're testing with f11 and not something a bit newer? (12 or rawhide)

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(In reply to comment #5)
> is there a reason you're testing with f11 and not something a bit newer? (12 or
> rawhide)

fc12 has the same issue, but EFI bits in 3.1 release have got not very good ACPI support so it bit tricky to launch fc12 in VBox/EFI. 

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if f12 has the same issue, let's update to that release then.

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Still the case.

i thought we have vboxvideo in now? that doesn't help?

sh-4.1# grep -i vbox /tmp/X.log
sh-4.1#

Seems not to be autoloaded.  Also I remember vboxvideo wasn't good on EFI system because it wanted to use BIOS. Which is not possible with EFI.

I'm using VirtualBox-3.2-3.2.12_68302_fedora14-1.x86_64 as EFI machine.

okay...can you post the whole X log and also check if xorg-x11-drv-vboxvideo package is installed (though it ought to be)? Thanks.



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Created attachment 467398 [details]
X.log from /tmp

Nb. I do not see vboxvideo driver in /mnt/runtime/usr/lib64/xorg/modules . Shouldn't it be there?

(In reply to comment #13)
> package is installed (though it ought to be)? Thanks.

No, it shouldn't be. Whole VirtualBox with all its dependencies including Xorg driver are in RPMFusion-free:

Name        : VirtualBox-OSE
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 3.2.10
Release     : 1.fc15
Size        : 15 M
Repo        : rpmfusion-free-rawhide
Summary     : A general-purpose full virtualizer for PC hardware
URL         : http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox
License     : GPLv2 or (GPLv2 and CDDL)
Popis       : A general-purpose full virtualizer and emulator for 32-bit and
            : 64-bit x86 based PC-compatible machines.

Name        : VirtualBox-OSE-guest
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 3.2.10
Release     : 1.fc15
Size        : 936 k
Repo        : rpmfusion-free-rawhide
Summary     : VirtualBox-OSE Guest Additions
URL         : http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox
License     : GPLv2 or (GPLv2 and CDDL)
Popis       : Tools that utilize kernel modules for supporting integration
            : with the Host, including file sharing and tracking of mouse
            : pointer movement and X.org X11 video and mouse driver.

Name        : kmod-VirtualBox-OSE
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 3.2.10
Release     : 1.fc15
Size        : 5.8 k
Repo        : rpmfusion-free-rawhide
Summary     : Metapackage which tracks in VirtualBox-OSE kernel module for
            : newest kernel
URL         : http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox
License     : GPLv2 or CDDL
Popis       : This is a meta-package without payload which sole purpose is to
            : require the VirtualBox-OSE kernel module(s) for the newest kernel.
            : to make sure you get it together with a new kernel.

Closing as NOTABUG (meaning, not a bug in Fedora provided packages).