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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I'm trying to run Chimera on VirtualBox. The installation completes fine, but when I try and run the program (<code><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">cd</span></code> to the bin directory and run
<code>./chimera</code>) I see<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Major opcode of failed request: 72 (X_PutImage)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Resource id in failed request: 0x480006a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Serial number of failed request: 1382<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Current serial number in output stream: 1388<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I've tried enabling / disabling hardware virtualization & 3D acceleration, but to no avail. Although people do seem to have problems with chimera on a virtualbox, it normally seems to be a problem with OpenGL, which this doesn't seem to
be.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone seen this error before? Is there anything else I'm missing? I can’t even work out if it's a hardware, VirtualBox, or OS problem…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">System:</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">VirtualBox 4.2.4<br>
Guest additions 4.2.4<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Guest OS: Ubuntu 12.04<br>
Host OS: Windows 7 professional<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chris<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">-------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Chris Wood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Didcot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">OX11 0QX<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">chris.wood@stfc.ac.uk<br>
www.ccpem.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
Tel: +44(0)1235 567864<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tel: +44(0)7909 586624<br>
Fax: +44(0)1235 567801</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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