Ubuntu 9.04 in VirtualBox

[robisaks]

Hey everyone, I wanted to make things a little easier on myself so I'm trying to run boxee inside a ubuntu virtual box. However, when boxee starts the screen goes black for a second then it quits out. Has anyone tried this?

some info from terminal:

Running Boxee test...
* Enable platform firectoriesAnd the log goes to... /tmp/berger-
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 1 (X_CreateWindow)
Serial number of failed request: 21
Current serial number in output stream: 22
Boxee: asked to stop
Boxee: already stopped
BXBGProcess, Resolver Audio Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x8fa38e0
BXBGProcess, Resolver Video Processor, asked to stop, this = 0x8fa3874
BXBGProcess, , asked to stop, this = 0x8fa339c
BXBGProcess, Application Messenger, asked to stop, this = 0x8f0e7e4
BXBGProcess, Application Messenger, asked to stop, this = 0x8f0e7e4

glxinfo | grep -i direct
direct rendering: Yes

[jdarnold]

This almost certainly won't work, as I don't believe any VM solution currently "does" OpenGL, which Boxee requires and is probalby why it isn't working for you now.

[robisaks]

I knew boxee required openGL but from the forum posts I read, most people were saying that it would run unusably slow without it, rather than it not working at all.

I guess I'll have to dust off the old computer and set it up with boxee

Thanks for the reply.

The funny thing is that in 9.04 glxinfo displays yes, but in 8.04 it displays no.

[liquid64]

Actually, I believe the later versions of virtualbox actually support opengl, to some degree. I haven't been able to get boxee working under a ubuntu 9.04 VM either though.

Here's a screenshot of the option that needs to be enabled:
http://g.imagehost.org/view/0227/opengl