From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 21 22:11:28 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 654C021D for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:11:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from filter01.peakinternet.com (filter01.peakinternet.com [207.55.16.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B2193E77 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:11:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zmail-mta01.peak.org ([207.55.16.111]) by filter01.peakinternet.com ({e1c81c21-e4c4-4528-aa90-7a27869c545a}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTPS id 20141221220805147 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:08:05 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from zmail-mta01.peak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zmail-mta01.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D89521B41A3 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 14:08:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zmail-mta01.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB12A1B41C0 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 14:08:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from zmail-mta01.peak.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zmail-mta01.peak.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 71Fej0GDHN4M for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 14:08:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailproxy-lb-06.peak.org (mailproxy-lb-06.peak.org [207.55.17.96]) by zmail-mta01.peak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 977841B41A3 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 14:08:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from carlj by elk.localnet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2ofS-0005WP-DK for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 14:08:02 -0800 From: Carl Johnson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Running X11 in a VirtualBox VM Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 14:08:02 -0800 Message-ID: <87lhm0y7ul.fsf@elk.localnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MAG-OUTBOUND: peakinternet.redcondor.net@207.55.16/22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:11:28 -0000 I had been running X11 inside of a FreeBSD VM under VirtualBox, but it refuses to run after the last upgrade a few days ago. The only error is that it can't open /usr/local/lib/dri/vboxvideo_dri.so. The file doesn't exist so that isn't surprising, but why is it necessary now? I don't really expect high performance, but I want something to run for testing. I did try booting the same system onto hardware and it ran fine with my Radeon card. The video drivers include xf86-video-vesa, but it insists on trying to run the vboxvideo driver that doesn't exist. I did try booting with vboxguest and vboxservice disabled, but there was no change. The system is FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE and here are a few of the possibly relevant packages: virtualbox-ose-additions-4.3.20_1 xf86-video-ati-7.5.0 xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3_4 xorg-7.7_1 xorg-drivers-7.7_2 Is there some way to run this with software rendering? Please let me know if there is more information needed. Thanks for any ideas. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org