Unity and Virtual Box

[Philip Muskovac]

On 03/22/2011 06:16 PM, Joseph Areeda wrote:
> My last message on this topic seems to have been truncated. I'll try again:
>
> Has anyone been able to use Unity with a recent ISO?
>
> I had it working last week (not sure how old that ISO was) but there
> were several issues with the virtual box drivers. The best bug report
> I've found describing the issue is #738330
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ose/+bug/738330>
>
> The best I can tell, the natty versions after after some time last week
> require ABI(whatever that is) version 10 but the latest version that
> comes with Virtual Box Drivers (even downloaded from Oracle) is V9. If
> you load the VBox drivers inside Natty you get V10 but VB complains
> about a version mismatch when natty tries to access the 3D acceleration.
>
> I managed to screw the pooch pretty well adding and removing packages
> from Oracle, aptitude and the GUI package manager. So I guess I must
> wait until someone else figures out how to do it.
>
> Right now I can do everything in VirtualBox except Unity. I suppose I
> could install Unity-2D.
>
> Joe
>
> I sent this already from the wrong email account. Please excuse the
> duplicate if the other gets approved.
>

The ABI mismatch for the guest additions is tracked in http://pad.lv/738330

Philip