VBoxGuestAdditions_5.2.6.iso with RHEL 7 and 3D acceleration

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Oliver Jones
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VBoxGuestAdditions_5.2.6.iso with RHEL 7 and 3D acceleration

Post by Oliver Jones »

Is 3D acceleration on RHEL 7.x Linux hosts still a supported feature with VirtualBox?

I ask, because since 5.2 was released, trying to use VBoxGuestAdditions_5.2.x.iso with RHEL 7.x installed hosts results in an unusable system. Several releases have now been made in the 5.2.x branch, and this bug has not been fixed. This is a problem for me, because I teach students using VirtualBox, and 5.1.x worked okay, but whenever I have tried using the latest release, it all worked fine up until the point where I installed the Guest Additions.

Has 3D graphics support therefore been deprecated in 5.2.x for RHEL 7 guests? I can only assume so, since QA seems to have been abandoned in this respect.
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Re: VBoxGuestAdditions_5.2.6.iso with RHEL 7 and 3D acceleration

Post by Martin »

Did you see the "Important:" line on the top of https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads ?
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Re: VBoxGuestAdditions_5.2.6.iso with RHEL 7 and 3D acceleration

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Martin wrote:Did you see the "Important:" line on the top of https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads ?
No, I must confess, because I had been looking here:
https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.2.6/

Interestingly, the "updated" VBoxGuestAdditions_5.2.7-120528.iso is not present (or linked to) in the 5.2.6 download directory. Had it been, I would have seen it.

EDIT: I tried the new image, but it seems much, much slower - especially the mouse pointer. It seems as if the "fix" was to disable 3D acceleration. So I'm back to using 5.1.x until this is fixed.
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Re: VBoxGuestAdditions_5.2.6.iso with RHEL 7 and 3D acceleration

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Try also the latest test builds.
FYI, you're the first one that reports such a symptom with the slow mouse. Please post a VBox.log (ZIPPED) from a complete cold-boot/login/shutdown the VM. Preferably after you've installed the test build and the matching GAs.
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