GNOME 3 Fallback Mode

[Andre Robatino]

drago01 <drago01 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 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 was under the impression that recent VirtualBox releases do provide the
required 3D acceleration pass-through support, but that something on the Fedora
side necessary to use it is missing. Is this correct, and how efficient would
software rendering be, compared to that?