VirtualBox 2D acceleration

[Rusty Nejdl]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:25:18 -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: 

> 2010/9/30
Rusty Nejdl 
> 
>>> Just found something.
>>> 
>>> On a win 7 guest.
When I tried to refresh the "Windows Experience
>>> Index", the
>>> VM
was summarily closed midway through the process. No crash or abort
>>>
warnings
>>> of any kind. No host disturbance whatsoever however.
>>>

>>> Without the 2d enebled, the refresh runs without problems.
>>> 
>>>
FreeBSD amd 64 8G Ram
>>> Nvidia driver 256.52
>> 
>> Mario,
>> 
>> I
can confirm the exact same behavior. I didn't have the guest additions
installed earlier on Windows 7 so the Windows Experience Index ran
correctly but gave graphics a 1. I installed guest additions in safe
mode with the experimental 3d support and then rebooted. Running the
test this time closed the VM just as you saw.
>> 
>> Rusty
> 
> But, no
doubt, the 2D accel improved quite A LOT the display in any windows
version. 
> I have not tested other OS.
> 
> Mario

> Mario,
 I tested
again and found that if I disable 3D acceleration then Windows 7 does
not shut down when refreshing the index. It still shows a 1 though. So,
it seems that this patch might be surfacing something that is broken but
we didn't see until now. I had never seen anything official on 3D
acceleration actually working on FreeBSD so not sure if that even works.


> 


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