Gentoo as Virtualbox guest -- cannot get framebuffer on boot

Sum1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 98

Hello Group,

I've built my gentoo-sources kernel 3.3.8 with uvesafb and I have what i believe is a correct framebuffer statement in my grub.conf, but when I start gentoo as a virtualbox guest OS, the framebuffer is not working.

grub.conf can be seen here: http://bpaste.net/show/37441/

uvesfb setting:

Kernel --> Device Drivers --> Graphics Support --> Support for frame buffer devices --> Userspace VESA VGA graphics support <built in, not module>

What am I missing?
Thank you.

Sum1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 98

sidenote: a big thank you to Neddy Seagoon for mentioning "wgetpaste" app in another post; it is a simple miracle worker and reduces the omg moment when you realize you can't easily copy/paste between terminal in virtualbox and OS host.

Sum1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 98

[SOLVED]

After going through the Gentoo Framebuffer wiki, I misunderstood the installation docs: uvesafb appears only to be used with initramfs.
I do not want to use an initramfs so I tried the VGA Framebuffer option, NOT the User space VESA VGA.

Framebuffer in boot terminal works; but, it does appear to be slow in virtualbox.
I'll need to follow-up to see if there are additional options to speed up scrolling and display on VGA framebuffer.