Virtualbox: Compositing does not work, compiz crashes

So, here's my problem:
After installing a fresh Arch Linux, the first thing I did was install Xorg and Virtualbox guest modules. After doing all that, and running Xfce, it worked just fine... except there was no compositing.
When I installed Compiz and tried to run it, it just crashed, closing every program and just leaving me with the wallpaper, forcing me to killall X
Is there a way to fix this? I don't have a xorg.conf file in /etc/X11, and xorg :0 -configure gives me the error "No output drivers"

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