[SOLVED] windows7 host, virtual box vm, archlinux guest, startx fails

Hello
I am trying to get startx to work with a archlinux guest.
I have installed vbox guest and utils packages with pacman.
I have installed libxcomposite with pacman.
I have the modules loaded vboxvideo, vboxsf, vboxguest.
When I startx, I get EE /dev/dri/card0 failed to start DRM interface, finally I get server terminated successfully.
Ive tried to not use an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, a xorg.conf file created with configure and NoAcell to disable drm for vesa and fbdev. Neither works.
John
Last edited by netskink (2015-02-06 01:15:44)

I have installed all of those. xorg-xinit, xorg-twm, etc.
And Saint, the other lines in the xorg log are fine. There is only one error when starting up X. It is this:
EE /dev/dri/card0 failed to start DRM interface
However, per your request here is the log.

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sudo mount -t vboxsf share ~/host
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sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 share ~/host
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