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ddelux

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Registered: 2013-05-06

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Graphical Glitches Virtualbox 3d Acceleration

I have just installed Arch Linux inside a virtual machine on my windows computer.  I installed the VBox guest additions and they appear to be running (the lspci command says vboxvideo is the currently loaded video driver) but I am experiencing some graphical problems.  My desktop background appears to be garbage data and occasionally, the whole screen whites out.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

http://i.imgur.com/jwcRIKh.png

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Last edited by ddelux (2013-09-03 15:55:09)

ddelux

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Registered: 2013-05-06

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Re: Graphical Glitches Virtualbox 3d Acceleration

Since the initial post I have updated my graphics driver on windows but the problem still persists.
I have a Nvidia GTX 460 and I am running driver version 320.49.

rufus

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Registered: 2013-04-20

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Re: Graphical Glitches Virtualbox 3d Acceleration

you need to stop the virtual machine go to settings and enable 3D

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ddelux

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Registered: 2013-05-06

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Re: Graphical Glitches Virtualbox 3d Acceleration

No when I enable 3D that's when the graphical glitches happen.  The VM is fine when 3D acceleration is turned off.  It would be nice to have the acceleration though.

ddelux

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Registered: 2013-05-06

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Re: Graphical Glitches Virtualbox 3d Acceleration

Even with several virtualbox guest module updates and NVidia host driver updates, the problem persists.  From the graphical errors I see on my desktop, it seems that my graphics card video memory is having some data allocation or writing problems.  I keep seeing textures from games I have recently played.