Enabling 3D acceleration on VMs in Virtual Box 7.1.6 Prevents VMs from starting (VMs Abort)

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Configuration - Ubuntu 24.04 Host running 6.12 Linux Kernel w/ Virtual Box 7.1.6.

Issue: Starting VMs w/ the appropriate vGPU (i.e VBoxSVGA for Windows 10/11 Guests; VMSVGA for Linux Guests), with Guest Additiona 7.1.6 installed + 3D acceleration enabled, results in VMs aborting with NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005).

Disabling 3D acceleration allows VMs to start. VBox logs from the aborted runs w/ 3D acceleration enabled include a number of curious entries:

0:00:01.483371 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 261 00:00:01.483377 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 262 00:00:01.483378 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 263 00:00:01.483379 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 264 00:00:01.483380 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 265 00:00:01.483380 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 266 00:00:01.483381 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 267 00:00:01.483382 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 268 00:00:01.483383 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 269 00:00:01.483384 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 270 00:00:01.483385 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 271 00:00:01.483385 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 272 00:00:01.483386 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 273 00:00:01.483387 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 274 00:00:01.483388 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 275 00:00:01.483389 VMSVGA: unsupported SVGA3D_DEVCAP 276

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Partial vbox.log from Windows 11 VM where 3D acceleration was enabled - aborted start

[c-hartmann]

same here. (kde neon host. vbox 7.1.6 from the repos)

broke literally all VMs. Linux and Windows guests. Disabling 3D acceleration "solves" the issue.

error when starting: VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component SessionMachine, interface ISession

[林博仁(Buo-Ren, Lin)]

Hit by this bug as well after a full system/package upgrade.

I'm using the Radeon 780M Graphics chipset on Ubuntu 24.04.