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So someone may ask: why not directly contribute to the specific HW drivers and leave virtualbox to sun?Ī) first of all because it seems to me that virtualbox video driver is smaller and less complex than all the other drivers (since it provides less functionality, but userspace mode setting is exactly the thing I would like to port to kernelspace, nothing more for now)ī) second because, doing so, even people that will not see kms in the short term (like nVidia people, since nouveau is far from getting stable), could help directly to projects like wayland, or fixing bugs related to kms, too. Now you need to configure the amount of RAM you want your virtual machine to use. Feel free to change the settings to your liking. I thought about it just because I was thinking about nice projects like wayland that make use of it, but KMS is available just on intel HW so none with different HW could ever contribute directly to the project, until a driver for their specific HW is done. In the Name input box, simply type ArchLinux and VirtualBox will automatically set the Type and Version to Arch Linux (64-bit). to install additional drivers if it may be necessary to indicate the graphic driver. wiki page to install the most recent NVIDIA driver available for your graphics card.

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Would it be feasible to add Kernel mode setting to the virtualbox driver found in the guest additions (I mean the OSE, obviously )? Developed from many Arch Linux Wiki pages that fully automates the. Arch Linux and Manjaro: The default version of Mesa is recommended. Installing VirtualBox: To install VirtualBox from the official Arch Linux package repository with Pacman package manager, run the following command: sudo pacman -S virtualbox.