Xorg VirtualBox Video Driver

tzoi516

tzoi516

pciconf -lv tells me my virtual graphics adapter is an InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH. Is there a port or specific driver that will give me better virtual performance or is VESA primarily the chosen one?

Additional information:
I Installed Windows 7 Pro on an Optimus laptop with VirtualBox, and FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p1 as the guest operating system. I'm more familiar with Parallels, which isn't an option because I'm not using a Mac. Thanks. :h
 
wblock@ said:
Install emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions. It includes drivers for the mouse (vboxmouse) and video (vboxvideo). If you do not have an xorg.conf at all, these will be used automatically.
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Thanks for the reply. When I make config /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers there aren't any vbox* drivers listed. There are additional drivers, but not for VirtualBox. The Handbook doesn't list what video driver either, it just basically says emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions provides a few additional services.
 
trh411 said:
Installing Guest Additions for FreeBSD guests illustrates use of the vbox* drivers for Xorg.
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I apologize for not being clear. Windows 7 Pro is the host system, FreeBSD is the guest OS in VirtualBox running in Windows. My concern with running X.Org virtually is: what video driver do I select because pciconf -lv doesn't show a virtual graphics adapter listed in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers make config.

I'm running FreeBSD on top of Windows 7 Pro because I have a new Optimus-based laptop that FreeBSD doesn't want to run on, and most of my work is done on previous FreeBSD systems. So I need to set up the environment on the Optimus-based system before I move all my data from the old system. The new system is an i7 Haswell system with 12 GB of memory, and I'm trying to tweak as much as I can so FreeBSD feels like the resident system - and so far, so good. I'm just not confident about X.Org and want to have all my ducks-in-a-row before I start delving deeper.
 
Where do you expect to see the drivers? X will detect them. Or you can enter it in Section "Device", but it's not necessary.
 
Thanks. Even though it doesn't show up in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers make config, when running Xorg -configure it does get listed there:
Code: 
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Apr 29 11:36:06 2014
List of video drivers:
                    tseng
                    intel
                    vboxvideo
                    tdfx
                    tga
                    trident
                    vesa

The others I installed "just in case" :e Thanks.
 
wblock@ said:
Where do you expect to see the drivers? X will detect them. Or you can enter it in Section "Device", but it's not necessary.
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I was expecting to see them listed with all of the drivers when I ran make config. But you're right, X.Org did detect them.
 
From my experience running X.Org in VirtualBox I often found that X -configure would produce the following extract of the xorg.conf:

Code: 
Section "Device"
	### Available Driver options are:-
	### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
	### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
	### [arg]: arg optional
	Identifier "Card0"
	DRIVER "VESA"
	VendorName "InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH"
	BoardName "VirtualBox Graphics Adapter"
	BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Note the DRIVER "VESA" part. Provided that X.Org loads the vboxvideo driver simply replace the VESA with vboxvideo (Capitals only used to highlight). The file should now read:

Code: 
Section "Device"
   ### Available Driver options are:-
   ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
   ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
   ### [arg]: arg optional
   Identifier "Card0"
   Driver "vboxvideo"
   VendorName "InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH"
   BoardName "VirtualBox Graphics Adapter"
   BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

I also found that a reboot is required, rather than restarting the X session, and you should have your resizable screen, etc.
 
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