On 09/03/2011 09:21 AM, Chris Kloiber wrote: > the Oracle VirtualBox does not adequately permit 3d to run the > "drain bamaged" Gnome3 in a "not going to lock up" manner. As several of us have pointed out at different times, there's nothing forcing you to use Gnome. If it doesn't work, try KDE or XFCE.