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Linux Guest - Chrome issues

Posted: 22. Oct 2013, 12:00
by girishd
Steps taken to reproduce bug
  • Launch Google Chrome in Linux guest virtual machine
  • Navigate to Gmail
  • Google Chrome freezes after a couple of seconds
This only happens when I have the "Enable 3D Acceleration" box checked.

Environment Details - Host
Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
VirtualBox 4.3.0 r89960
12GB RAM

Environment Details - Guest
Xubuntu 13.10 (64-bit)
VirtualBox Guest Additions 4.3.0 r89960
6327MB RAM

I have attached the following in the zip file
  • VirtualBox Log
  • Output of VBoxManage showvminfo
  • Output in terminal when I run google-chrome on my guest OS (Xubuntu)
The two ways I can get around this for now are
  • Disable 3D Acceleration
  • Launch google-chrome in Xubuntu with the following switch "--blacklist-accelerated-compositing"
Also, my host OS keeps crashing with the following error message "CRITICAL_STRUCTURE_CORRUPTION". But looking at the other thread on this forum, it seems like you guys have fixed this with 4.3.1 r90098. Anyway, will be great if you guys can fix this OpenGL (??) problem....I kept thinking it was something to do with my guest OS and I've installed/uninstalled 3 distros (Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Xubuntu) over the past 5 hours only to realize it had something to do with VirtualBox.

Thanks,
Girish

Re: Linux Guest - Chrome issues

Posted: 24. Oct 2013, 06:40
by Royce
You're not alone. I had the same issue with Chromium browser. Temporary workaround was to disable hardware acceleration in advanced settings of Chromium.

My experience so far is that 3d acceleration in VBox is buggy!

Re: Linux Guest - Chrome issues

Posted: 13. Dec 2013, 04:56
by ChrisRus

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locate google-chrome.desktop
Add --blacklist-accelerated-compositing to the three exec lines in google-chrome-desktop.

Worked for me. See beshoy-dot-girgis-dot-us 2012/11 blog post for details (where I got this tip).

Re: Linux Guest - Chrome issues

Posted: 13. Dec 2013, 08:29
by socratis
ChrisRus wrote:locate google-chrome.desktop
Add --blacklist-accelerated-compositing to the three exec lines in google-chrome-desktop.
Worked for me. See beshoy-dot-girgis-dot-us 2012/11 blog post for details (where I got this tip).
I can post URLs, so I'll make it easier for the rest of the community to find what you meant: http://beshoy.girgis.us/2012/11/. Just to add to this, I'm running a WinXP VM with IE6 (yes, I know, it's sick). I haven't touched IE (besides basic updates), just in case that someone is still running it and I want to be able to test some client's website. If I'm not fast enough to disable 3D hardware acceleration in IE, the VM needs a restart...

Nice catch for a 1st post!!!