[vbox-dev] OpenGL/3D on Mac Hosts... Screenshots

[Louis King Jr]

the build is VirtualBox-4.2.51-86105


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Louis King Jr <inlieuoflou at gmail.com>wrote:

> the error in the Ternimal....
> louiss-imac:~ Mine$ VirtualBox -startvm "LMDE Cinnamon" --rmode image
> VirtualBox: error: Code NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED (0x80004001) - Not
> implemented (extended info not available)
> VirtualBox: error: Context:
> "Notify3DEvent(VBOX3D_NOTIFY_EVENT_TYPE_VISIBLE_WINDOW, NULL)" at line 266
> of file crservice.cpp
>
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Louis King Jr <inlieuoflou at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> when I use 'VirtualBox -startvm <guest's name> --rmode image' I get a
>> message about starting in 16 bit color mode although it does start in 32
>> bit color. The screenshot is still black. That's when I tried it with LMDE
>> - Cinnamon.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Sergey Dubov <Sergey.Dubov at oracle.com>wrote:
>>
>>> **
>>> Louis King Jr <inlieuoflou at gmail.com> писал(а) в своём письме Thu, 30
>>> May 2013 22:00:53 +0400:
>>>
>>>
>>> This has been a long standing problem with VirtualBox running on Mac
>>> hosts. For whatever reason screenshots on Linux guests running Compiz or
>>> Unity or Gnome3 or Cinnamon can not take screenshots. All one gets is an
>>> empty black screen. I've been told this is not an issue for the Windows or
>>> Linux versions of VB. As of today's 4.2.51 version it's still an issue. If
>>> it is one of the things being worked on currently of course ignore this
>>> message.
>>>
>>> I would mention the current version of Debian 7 with Gnome 3 does
>>> actually work as far as screenshots go and I have no idea why.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi.
>>> Is it the case with QImage frame-buffer too?
>>> I mean by default MacOS X host VM uses Quartz2D frame-buffer but there
>>> is an experimental QImage frame-buffer support which can be used by trunk
>>> VM through '--rmode image' passed as additional argument to 'VirtualBox
>>> -startvm <vm name>' like:
>>> VirtualBox -startvm Ubuntu --rmode image
>>>
>>> --
>>> *With Best Regards,*
>>> *[Oracle/VirtualBox] Sergey Dubov
>>> *
>>> *
>>> *
>>>
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>>
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