F15 BETA.TC1 experiences

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 14:14 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:

> As it was a virtual machine (I guess that's the reason) Gnome 3 failed
> to load.   I then enabled 3D acceleration in VBox and gave it the
> maximum allowable memory (128MB), and tried again.  (This doesn't
> affect me in real life, where I do minimal installations and use
> openbox, but I was curious.)  However, still no Gnome 3.  I seem to
> remember this being a known issue--or perhaps not even considered an
> issue, that it won't work in many VMs. 

Yeah, it's a known issue. In theory we should be able to make it work
with VBox's acceleration passthrough, in practice it doesn't, yet. It's
mentioned in Common Bugs.
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