Ticket #13471 (new defect)
VB Video driver should support Wayland
| Reported by: | Rainmaker | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Component: | guest additions/x11/graphics |
| Version: | VirtualBox 4.3.16 | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Guest type: | Linux | |
| Host type: | all |
Description
Some major distributions will be switching to Wayland in the near future. Currently, the video driver included with the guest tooling does not support Wayland. Running a virtual machine results in a black screen after boot (with the correct resolution).
Tested with Fedora 21 Alpha.
The full VBox.log from a machine starting Wayland is attached.
Change History
comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by michael
We are aware of this and working on it, but there is currently no estimate for when it will be done as we have many other things to work on too.
comment:4 Changed 19 months ago by VBoxer1
With GNOME and KDE the two big Linux desktops are moving to Wayland and it has already not been possible to test the GNOME desktop in a VB machine for months now. Please, could somebody care?
comment:5 Changed 18 months ago by fusion809
I agree, I honestly don't see why there seems to be so little interest in developing Wayland support for VirtualBox.
