Lone Coder: VirtualBox on Vista with a Gentoo Guest

[Jon VanAlten]

>
> As Gentoo doesn't come with an xorg.conf file--except the sample one
> provided with the software and that doesn't support VirtualBox--and X
> Windows cannot not run without an xorg.conf file, and Gnome and KDE require
> X to run, I find it unlikely that you can get a graphical desktop in
> VirtualBox without creating and configuring the X config file.
>

I don't know at which version this changed, but (for most common
hardware) X does not need xorg.conf to run anymore.  Hardware is
auto-detected at runtime.  Now, I don't use Virtualbox so I can't
speak to whether its virtualized hardware would be detected
correctly...

jon
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