As it turns out, that's not strictly true. I've just moved a number of VMs that were originally defined and used on a desktop client to a server (to run headless). First problem? I'd got 3d acceleration defined and needed to turn it off.
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Hi,
thanks for ur great work!
Just a little question : how can i enable/disable the 3d video acceleration?
thanks
Last edit: fatez 2014-10-25
I get the impression that this has not been implemented via the web GUI.
You should be able to enable 3D video acceleration via the commandline (e.g. login via ssh)
vboxmanage modifyvm "<vm-name>" --accerlerate3d on
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html
Once set (I suppose you only have to do this once for each vm), you can continue to use phpVirtualbox for day-to-day management of vms.
Note that this has Zero effect on a VM unless using the desktop VirtualBox client. For that reason, it is excluded from phpVirtualBox.
As it turns out, that's not strictly true. I've just moved a number of VMs that were originally defined and used on a desktop client to a server (to run headless). First problem? I'd got 3d acceleration defined and needed to turn it off.
Probably not a very common problem, but given the relative ease of adding it in, it will appear in the next version of phpvirtualbox.
If you want to enable 3D Acceleration in VirtualBox you can checkout VirtualBox Enable 3D Acceleration video tutorial.