no screen refresh until some change is made "inside" host

[Maciej Pilichowski]

I run KDE4Daily as guest (host: Vista). After first login&logout from KDE session (within guest) I return to WDM. At that point through log in, entering KDE again, till logging out again there are no automatic screen refreshes at all.

The screen looks static, in order to see what is going on on the screen I have to keep clicking mouse outside the guest screen (for in example in VirtualBox menu, or in _host_ taskbar). Such manual refresh works fine, the screen is not distorted. Of course the point is the screen refresh should be done automatically as always.

Video card: intel 4500 mhd.

[Frank Mehnert]

Do you have the guest additions installed? Did you ever try an older version of VirtualBox, for instance 2.0.6?

[Maciej Pilichowski]

Additions -- of course, without it I would not get the screen resize on guest system at all.

No, I didn't try previous versions of VB (I mean for this issue, because I use VB for some quite time, but on Vista for the first time and with 2.1).

[Frank Mehnert]

Then this problem might be related to #2771.

[Maciej Pilichowski]

It might. But note for me works everything with one exception -- when the window is maximized.

It this window would be resized to maximum (this is quite different than maximized) then it would work.

[bbreslauer]

(This used to be in 3096, but it was a different bug) I'm having a very similar problem. I'm running 2.1.4 on a Debian etch host with Debian sid/experimental on the guest, with kde 4.2. Both host and guest are running kernel 2.6.26. When KDE loads in the guest with the vboxvideo driver, it performs perfectly well (the screen updates continuously). However, if I log out, then the screen no longer updates unless another window moves over it or I move the window off-screen temporarily, then bring it back on screen. In addition, I have two monitors; if I move it from the secondary monitor (in KDE, but Screen 0 in xorg.conf) even partially onto the primary monitor (in KDE, but Screen1 in xorg.conf), then a complete refresh occurs, but only that once. Keyboard and mouse still work, though I don't see the results unless I move the window off-screen and then back on. If I switch from the vboxvideo to vesa driver in X, then none of these peculiarities occur.

[Michael Thayer]

Is this still an issue?

[bbreslauer]

I'm using 3.something now, so this isn't an issue for me anymore.

[Maciej Pilichowski]

I didn't see this issue for quite a while to I assume it can be closed. If it re-appears I will notify you.

[Frank Mehnert]

Thanks for the feedback!

[James]

Hi, I'm using ubuntu 10.10 64bit on a Acer aspire 5740g laptop and virtualbox installed version 4.1.6 r74713. This very exact same issue appeared too on my system. Hope it gets fixed :) meanwhile I'll go back to a previous VB package while it gets reviewed. Thank you.

[KlaasVaak]

Same issue here.

• Host: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit on Dell XPS L502X
• Virtualbox: 4.1.8
• Guest: Ubuntu 11.10 64bit
• Guest additions: yes

[sffetlio]

I have the same problem. Win 7 Pro 64 on HP Pavilion dv6. Vbox 4.1.8 and 4.1.10 with GA. With Ubuntu 11.10 64 guest.

[Frank Mehnert]

Please attach VBox.log files of such VM sessions. I assume that this only happens if you use Ubuntu with the 3D-accelerated desktop?