ubuntu 11-10 [hijack] vbox guest addition + unity3d

[NoOp]

On 10/24/2011 11:58 AM, sktsee wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:10:47 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> 
> [snip]
>> 
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.user/2733
>> [[Ubuntu 11.10] Lost Unity Launch bar & top panel
>> w/vboxadditions_4.1.4_74291]
> 
> Apologies for thread hijack, but I wanted to suggest a solution to the 
> Vbox guest addition + unity issue.
> 
> The problem is that the current PUEL version is not aware of the new 
> multi-arch filesystem layout of the system libraries in Ubuntu/Debian.
> 
> Create the following symbolic link for 11.10 32-bit guest then reboot.
> 
> $ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri /usr/lib/dri
> 
> I don't have the 64-bit version installed, but I think the following 
> should work:
> 
> $ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri /usr/lib64/dri
> 
> AFAIK, this issue is fixed with the Ubuntu supplied version and in the 
> latest OSE trunk.
> 

Well... it was worth a try, but no joy. Thanks for the suggestion though.
BTW: I upgraded my natty test partition on the same laptop last night to
11.10, and that runs just fine (full 3D), so it is an issue with vbox.