VirtualBox

Opened 13 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#9581 closed defect (obsolete)

Display becomes corrupted when 3d acceleration is in use

Reported by: Sam Morris Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 4.1.2
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: other

Description (last modified by Frank Mehnert)

After running programs that use 3d acceleration for prolonged periods, the display becomes corrupted. Sometimes, but not always, VirtualBox will crash. If not then rebooting the guest does not fix the problem; as soon as a program uses OpenGL it will start again. It's necessary to power off the virtual machine to fix the problem.

I see the problem on two machines. It crops up much more often on one machine where I've installed GNOME 3 in the guest; I guess this is because gnome-shell (3.0.2) uses the 3d hardware a lot.

I'm unable to reproduce this on demand, but I can make it more likely by running Chromium (the web browser) and browsing to a page that it renders with GPU acceleration.

The first sign is that the desktop background goes black, then comes back. Eventually windows stop updating, or only update a cropped portion of themselves. Finally, the screen will go entirely black, with bits of the edges of windows occasionally appearing and being overlayed with white boxes.

The guest is running Debian with Linux 3.0.

Host is running Windows 7 x86_64; my graphics card is an ATI Radeon HD 5850.

Attachments (2)

VBox.log (79.3 KB ) - added by Sam Morris 13 years ago.
virtualbox log file
shell-20111114-1.webm (336.4 KB ) - added by Sam Morris 12 years ago.
movie capture of screen during graphical corruption

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Change History (9)

by Sam Morris, 13 years ago

Attachment: VBox.log added

virtualbox log file

comment:1 by Sam Morris, 12 years ago

Still present with 4.1.4.

comment:2 by Sam Morris, 12 years ago

(and on a differnet system with an ATI Radeon HD 4890)

comment:3 by Sam Morris, 12 years ago

Still present with 4.1.6 and Linux 3.1.

by Sam Morris, 12 years ago

Attachment: shell-20111114-1.webm added

movie capture of screen during graphical corruption

comment:4 by amirpli, 10 years ago

It still happens with 4.3.2 (Linux 3.11).

I can reproduce it on demand, using Google Earth 7.1.2, under Debian7/Gnome3.

If desired, please write me and I will add the details (long preparations steps are needed, but it then happens immediately on the start of every invocation of google-earth).

Last edited 10 years ago by amirpli (previous) (diff)

comment:5 by Frank Mehnert, 10 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

amirpli, could you also test VBox 4.3.4? There were changes related to 3D in almost every recent VBox release.

in reply to:  5 comment:6 by amirpli, 10 years ago

I tested it just now with Vbox 4.3.4 (Linux 3.11) and the the 3D driver still crashes.

comment:7 by aeichner, 8 years ago

Resolution: obsolete
Status: newclosed

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.

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