3D acceleration causes guest machine to display black screen

[Jeremy Smith]

I am using Linux Mint LMDE as the guest OS. 3D acceleration was working a while ago but I installed guest additions and it seemed to stop working after that. Not sure what the version was originally. Did a bunch of searching and some posts were saying that some guest additions don't work with 3D acceleration so tried several different versions that were suggested in various posts but nothing seemed to fix it. I am currently using 5.1.30 and it doesn't work. I have attached a log to view. I can't seem to figure out why it's not working.

[socratis]

00:00:17.300483 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Version 5.1.30 r118389 '5.1.30'

You have an older installation of the Guest Additions (GAs) installed. If 3D acceleration is causing your display to go blank, then disable it, update the GAs, then re-enable it again.

To update the GAs, with the VM window having the focus go to the menu "Devices" » "Insert GAs CD image..." and follow the prompts.

BTW, the log you attached shows that 3D acceleration is enabled. And keep in mind that you have an Intel GPU, which isn't known as the most powerful or compliant in the market...

00:00:02.481429 OpenGL Info: Render SPU: GL_VENDOR:   Intel
00:00:02.481449 OpenGL Info: Render SPU: GL_RENDERER: Intel(R) HD Graphics 2500

[Jeremy Smith]

To update the GAs, with the VM window having the focus go to the menu "Devices" » "Insert GAs CD image..." and follow the prompts.

Yeah it was working originally but updating to the latest ones I think is what made it stop working. I am at that version because I tried downgrading as other posts I had seen suggested doing which didn't quite fix it. I can update it and post the log again if you would rather see that?

BTW, the log you attached shows that 3D acceleration is enabled. And keep in mind that you have an Intel GPU, which isn't known as the most powerful or compliant in the market...

That may be but it was working previously. The log I attached was when I tried booting it up with 3D acceleration enabled.

[socratis]

When posting a random log, from a random run, with random settings, that doesn't help identify the problem. We'd like to see "The Log" where/when the problem occurs.

And you need to do some triaging. Which version works, which one doesn't? 3D enabled or not? I don't have your host in front of me so I can't do that for you. And it's not that I can fix it for you, I only can gather evidence presented, spot mistakes in the configuration. If a newer version fails, that needs to be registered as such, and if multiple reports come in, then dig further and try to find out what's going on...

[Jeremy Smith]

Well that was the log from the latest run that I tried using 3D acceleration with. I thought it seemed the most relevant. To be honest I don't know what version I was on before I updated the GAs. I have tried 5.2.20, 5.2.4, 5.1.30 and some other one a couple version before 5.2.20. Don't remember which. I didn't want to have to download every GA and try each and every one. I just thought that maybe there was a known issue with them not working correctly with Linux guests after a certain version or something. That's more so what I was looking for. The machine works fine without 3D acceleration. I just found it weird that it was working one day and updating the GA seemed to break it.

I will just keep randomly trying GAs.

[artkor]

I experience similar problem. Oracle Linux 7.6 with latest VirtualBox and latest additions (Version 5.2.22 r126460 (Qt5.6.2)) won't work in 3D acceleration mode. It gets stuck when starting X system.
System itself continues working. I can shutdown it with ACPI shutdown, or switch to text mode with Ctrl+Alt+F[2-9]

[Poil]

Hi,

I think same problem as me on Ubuntu 18.10 : viewtopic.php?f=3&t=90282

[JoergK]

I experience similar problem. Oracle Linux 7.6 with latest VirtualBox and latest additions (Version 5.2.22 r126460 (Qt5.6.2)) won't work in 3D acceleration mode.

Well, since OL 7.6 is a sibling to RHEL 7.6 you could possibly suffer from the same problem I did. GA stopped working after upgrading 7.5 -> 7.6. Reinstall did not work because the GA did not compile. See Error building the graphics driver module in RHEL 7.6 (#18093) for further information.

The problem is fixed after (not in) 5.2.22. I'm currently using a testbuild to work with RHEL 7.6.

[Jeremy Smith]

I updated to LMDE3 from LMDE2 and it worked for a while. A windows update got installed and then it went back to just being a black screen. I updated virtualbox and installed new GAs and it boots up but in software rendering mode.