Lone Coder: VirtualBox on Vista with a Gentoo Guest

[Ken Burtch]

Thanks for the info.

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On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Jon VanAlten wrote:

>>
>> 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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