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D3vil0p3r

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Registered: 2022-11-05

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Virtualbox - VMSVGA with 3D Acceleration graphical weird behavior

I'm using Arch Linux latest with GNOME 44 and GDM and I'm using Arch Linux with VirtualBox on Windows host by enabling VMSVGA with 3D Acceleration and assigning the maximum video memory (128 MB) on VirtualBox Display settings. I also installed "virtualbox-guest-utils".

I noted that some graphical behaviors are glitching, for example for testing I used Compiz GNOME extension https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnom … effect-git that gives a graphical effect when a window is dragged.

The glitch is the following: when I drag the window and I move it around the desktop, the window disappears instead of showing the Compiz effect. The glitch is only when I enable the 3D acceleration. If I disable it, it works correctly.

I followed Virtualbox Arch Linux as guest wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Virtua … as_a_guest, the "vboxservice.service" is enabled but I don't understand why the 3D Acceleration is enabled but causing these glitches.

Is there some additional step I'm missing for solving this issue?

Last edited by D3vil0p3r (2023-05-30 18:51:46)