GNOME 3 Fallback Mode

[Andrew Haley]

On 04/27/2011 11:35 AM, drago01 wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to run F15 beta LiveCD in a virtual machine, but I get
>> a complaint that GNOME 3 failed to load and is running in fallback
>> mode.  Is there any way to make it work properly when virtualized?
> 
> Not yet ... the VM has to provide proper 3D acceleration for it to work.
> Ajax has been working on making it run on software rendering, once his
> work is finished it should be able to run in VMs.

I see.  This is a bit unfortunate from a beta testing point of view: I
can't be the only one who tests preview releases in a VM.

Andrew.