VirtualBox 2D acceleration

[Mario Lobo]

2010/9/30 Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl at ringofsaturn.com>

>
>
>> 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

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