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Ubuntu 10 04 Lucid Lynx Alpha in VirtualBox with Guest Additions

Today I installed the latest alpha of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha inside of VirtualBox.  After getting all of the updates I installed the VirtualBox Guest Additions.  Upon boot my screen flashed lots of fun colors and then told me that my display configuration was fubared.
I booted up in low graphics mode and then searched for the answer, which Im going to repeat here.
After installing the guest additions you need to modify a file.

gksudo gedit /usr/src/vboxvideo-3.1.4/vboxvideo_drm.c

Replace line 90 with the following:


#if defined(DRM_UNLOCKED) || LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION (2, 6, 33)
                 .unlocked_ioctl = drm_ioctl,
#else
                 .ioctl = drm_ioctl,
#endif


Finally, run the following command:
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup


So anyways, this got me as far as logging in without the graphics dying.  However, it looks like Compiz gets enabled and kills everything.  Ill update if I find a solution to this.


Source:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/536929
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6198
http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/27248

Edit: Bug 6198 is fixed as of VirtualBox 3.1.6. To get it for Ubuntu add the VirtualBox PPA found at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads and run sudo aptitude install virtualbox-3.1

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