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I've set up Ubuntu 11.10 in a VirtualBox VM based off the alpha-2 ISO and trying to switch from Unity to Gnome 3. When I select GNOME from the login screen and log in, a popup appears saying
'Failed to load session 'gnome'".
I've got many GNOME packages installed, such as gnome-session. What is missing? Is this supported yet?
Blair Zajac
Posted 2011-07-23T06:29:14.640
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The GNOME 3 FAQ states:
To get the GNOME 3 experience, you need hardware acceleration.
So, if you are looking to use GNOME in your virtual box, you have to enable hardware acceleration for it.
But, fear not. Developments are going on to make sure that GNOME doesn't have to rely on GPU hardware and soon enough, through LLVMpipe, you should be able to get GNOME experience in your virtualbox without having to enable hardware acceleration.
It's now possible to run the GNOME Shell with Mutter but not having to rely upon any GPU hardware driver! Software rendering is now working with GNOME Shell rather than any fall-back thanks to improvements with Gallium3D's LLVMpipe.
jokerdino
Posted 2011-07-23T06:29:14.640
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You need to install gdm:
$ sudo apt-get install gdm
rosencruez
Posted 2011-07-23T06:29:14.640
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1You should not need to use GDM to launch Gnome3. – Simon Sheehan – 2011-07-26T23:40:21.590
alpert
Posted 2011-07-23T06:29:14.640
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Are you still having this problem now that 11.10 has been released? – MDCore – 2011-11-19T19:44:55.747
@MDCore, no, it's all working fine. – Blair Zajac – 2012-01-17T07:17:49.593