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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.

Can you guys help me with this? I'm not very good with linux my previous experience has been with Ubuntu and Fedora so please be gentle :)

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Have you enabled 2d and 3d acceleration for that virtual machine in virtual box settings for that machine? – Saša Šijak Oct 28 '11 at 9:42

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When I try to enable 2d video acceleration I get this warning:

On the Display page, you have 2D Video Acceleration enabled. As 2D Video Acceleration is supported for Windows guests only, this feature will be disabled.

So it seems 2d acceleration is not available if you run virtual Linux machines.

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