OpenGL acceleration messed up in guest OS (flickers, ghost windows, buffers showing...)

[careyer]

Dear Developers,

I am running the latest VirtualBox 5.1.10 r112026 for MacOS Hosts and multiple Windows OS guest systems with the respective and latest VBoxAdditions.

3D Acceleration is activated 2D Acceleration is activated

Hoever when running a OpenGL based application in the guest (e.g. Solidworks) it always messes up the display by showing buffered window contents (which are either in the background or contents of windows that have already been closed) right on top of parts of the openGL window. It happens most of the time when the mouse is moved around.

I have seen this problem around for quite a while now (using Virtualbox since Version 3.x) and this issue somehow has never been solved.

Is there any hint, patch or workaround? Disabling the 3D Acceleration completely solves the problem but the CAD application gets terribly slow then.

Thank you very much. Best regards

Thomas

[peklasik]

Hi, I have the same problem with support OpenGL on the WIN 7 after upgrade virtual box from vesrion 5.0.28 to 5.0.30 and higher. I think that it must be bug on the virtual box, last correctly status was on version 5.0.28. I have valid also both video acceleration 2D and 3D.

Petr

[careyer]

Thanks Petr!

Is there a way to report this bug somewhere so that it gets fixed in newer versions? That error is really really nasty.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Cheers! Thomas

[Socratis]

Replying to careyer:

Is there a way to report this bug somewhere so that it gets fixed in newer versions?

Thomas, you are in the "reporting bugs" section of VirtualBox. Now if it gets "fixed" or not in the newer version, that's not something that you or me can decide. Or influence.

And without any diagnostics, logs or in depth information, it will definitely not get fixed in the next version. I (for example) am using OSX 10.9.5 as my host, on a MacBookPro 17" early 2011, with VirtualBox 5.1.18. I do not have any problems like the ones you're describing. So there must be something different in your setup that makes this problem appear.

And BTW, a glitch in the 3D graphics, in some of the programs, is definitely not a "critical" bug.

[careyer]

Replying to socratis:

And without any diagnostics, logs or in depth information, it will definitely not get fixed in the next version. I (for example) am using OSX 10.9.5 as my host, on a MacBookPro 17" early 2011, with VirtualBox 5.1.18. I do not have any problems like the ones you're describing. So there must be something different in your setup that makes this problem appear.

And BTW, a glitch in the 3D graphics, in some of the programs, is definitely not a "critical" bug.

Is there any way I can provide logs, diagnostics or dumps somehow? It glitches almost all the time whenever you move your mouse over an OpenGL accelerated window and renders the whole application almost unuseable. Indeed this bug was introduced somewhen in the past since there are known stable versions. I also tried to downgrade to certain versions but with no luck. When searching the web many people report this OpenGL bug.

[Socratis]

Replying to careyer:

Is there any way I can provide logs, diagnostics or dumps somehow?

Of course! Follow a "start from cold-boot"/"observe error"/"shutdown" cycle. With the VM shut down completely (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log". Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it.

Indeed this bug was introduced somewhen in the past since there are known stable versions.

It would really help if you could pinpoint the exact version that you saw the change. Remember that when you downgrade your main VirtualBox program you should also downgrade the Guest Additions (GAs) in the guest as well. Actually they are more vital to the bug that you're seeing, compared to VirtualBox itself.

Remember that the more accurate and pinpointed information you provide the better chances you have of this being addressed. And since this is not widespread, your share of the responsibility becomes even bigger.