Note that 7 is no longer supported as a host OS. Choose whatever OS you are familiar with.
Peruse the forum's How-Tos and Tutorials section.)įor the host OS, it does not matter. (98 and 95 have never had Guest Additions, but there are workarounds. Dropping back a few minor versions for Guest Additions will probably get you a GAs version that will install, see, or for 7 web-search how to upgrade to SHA256 security hashing.ĩ8 and 95 have never technically been officially supported, though they do run, and we have received no indication that 98 and 95 do not work in 6.1.32 anymore. There is a new glitch regarding Guest Additions going on now for 7 Vista and XP, due to recent SHA256 upgrading of security hashing protocols by the world's standards makers. I'll see if I can narrow it down further later, but I wonder if there's anything notable in the 6.2 changelogs which'd point to a culprit.Since you mention the 'host' in a separate question, I'll guess that you're inquiring about what Virtualbox version still supports 7, XP, 98, and 95 as guests, or VMs.ħ and XP are still officially supported as VMs in the latest as of today 6.1.32. So it feels to me like it was some change between kernel 6.1.x and 6.2.x which is causing the issue, at least for what I was seeing. (VBoxSVGA isn't the recommended adapter for Linux, though, so I went back to VMSVGA w/out the 3D Accel checkbox.) Switching to the VBoxSVGA adapter worked too, but presumably just because that doesn't have 3D support for Linux. I don't actually have any need for 3D acceleration on this VM, so that works for me, but would be suboptimal for some folks. Even on 6.2.12, then, that made things work fine. Download the pre-installed image of Windows 7 from our official link. Another fix for myself was just disabling that "3D Acceleration" checkbox on the virtualbox config. Download and install the latest Oracle VirtualBox. I didn't try hopping all the way back to 6.0.12, but I *did* install linux-lts-6.1.25-1, and booting into that kernel made things work perfectly again. Sometimes when *moving* a window, that rendering would partially lag behind, too, so a window would appear to shrink as I drag it, and then expand back to full size (not actually resizing the contents it was just the window contents not being drawn from one of the corners.Īnyway, after various investigation, it seemed related to a kernel update.
(Interestingly, *shrinking* the window was usually fine.) Jiggling a window around the desktop for a bit would often lead to lots of artifacts on the screen, until I stopped jiggling to give the display time to recover. Resizing an xterm window to make it bigger, for instance, would often very noticeably lag behind. It was manifesting mostly in window resizes and moves. In my case, I hadn't actually been looking for 3D acceleration, but I did have 3D Acceleration enabled in VirtualBox's settings, using the recommended-for-Linux VMSVGA adapter. This happened in Virtualbox 7.0.4, and also in 7.0.8 after upgrading that. The situation as of now is that in Gnome on Wayland:įirefox (webpages are fine, but titlebar text is broken and file picker for uploading is unusable)īit of a necropost here, but I ended up having some similar issues after a somewhat-overdue package upgrade on a VirtualBox-hosted Arch VM I use occasionally (using ol' reliable IceWM for the window manager). I also tried removing virtualbox-guest-utils and installing the guest additions from the iso, I tried lightdm and sddm as recommended by the wiki as well, it doesn't change anything either. I tried glxgears at home, it also gets VSync'ed, but Gnome on Wayland feels way snappier there on my i7 3770 (also no GPU, but on bare metal). I can run glxgears without those flags, so I know they got applied. rw-r-r- 1 root root 1904 Mar 19 05:29 vte.shĮxport LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=true vblank_mode=0 rw-r-r- 1 root root 22 Mar 24 13:35 mercurial.sh rw-r-r- 1 root root 252 Mar 30 16:16 libreoffice-fresh.sh
rw-r-r- 1 root root 252 Mar 30 16:16 libreoffice-fresh.csh rw-r-r- 1 root root 596 Mar 3 22:53 debuginfod.sh rw-r-r- 1 root root 674 Mar 3 22:53 debuginfod.csh This is env | sort in Gnome Console while 3D acceleration is on: $ LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=true vblank_mode=0 glxgearsĪTTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.īy environment variables, do you want me to give the output of env in a terminal?