Opened 14 years ago
Last modified 11 years ago
#6699 closed defect
VirtualBox aborts after changing the video driver — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | James Moe | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | VMM | Version: | VirtualBox 3.1.8 |
| Keywords: | ati video driver, abort | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Linux |
Description
opensuse v11.2 linux 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop x86_64
windows XP sp3 w/1GB RAM allocated
amd AM2 5200 (dual core)
ati radeon hd3200
The host was running the open source radeon video driver; it was mostly good. I then got a program in Windows that is quite graphics heavy, and complained about the GPU acceleration being unavailable.
It suggested in discussion http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=30960&sid=5a0b8ff99d9a254929447057a748a1b7 that the ATI flgrx video driver was required for Direct3D support in a Windows VM. I downloaded the latest version and installed it per the installation notes.
Since there was no observable difference in the Windows VM performance, I reverted to the original video driver. All VMs abort at startup now with the original radeon video driver. I MUST now use the flgrx driver even though I do not like it (it has a few annoying features that cannot be modified).
VBox log of an aborted session. All VMs produce this log.