3D acceleration not working on OSE

[rmh]

3D acceleration does not appear to be working on OSE. The checkbox is present, but marking it won't result in VBox.log including the usual information about OpenGL (e.g. "OpenGL Info: Render SPU: GL_VENDOR: blah").

I suspect it has something to do with incomplete handling of the OpenGLEnabled configuration setting. It is checked for, but there seems to be no code to enable it:

$ rgrep OpenGLEnabled src/
src/VBox/Main/VMMDevInterface.cpp:    if (!CFGMR3AreValuesValid(pCfgHandle, "Object\0OpenGLEnabled\0crOpenGLEnabled\0"))
src/VBox/Main/VMMDevInterface.cpp:    rc = CFGMR3QueryBool(pCfgHandle, "OpenGLEnabled", &fEnabled);

[rmh]

Sorry, my wiki-fu sucks. This should be more readable:

$ rgrep OpenGLEnabled src/
src/VBox/Main/VMMDevInterface.cpp:    if (!CFGMR3AreValuesValid(pCfgHandle, "Object\0OpenGLEnabled\0crOpenGLEnabled\0"))
src/VBox/Main/VMMDevInterface.cpp:    rc = CFGMR3QueryBool(pCfgHandle, "OpenGLEnabled", &fEnabled);

[frank]

Nothing sucks, there is even a Preview button.

Regarding your problem: See r16240. OpenGL was accidently disabled for the OSE tarball. This will be fixed with the next release. AFAICS the code you found is dead.