Weston wayland (VMSVGA) stopped working with kernel 5.0

[l0ner]

Arch guest and arch host. VMSVGA as the driver.

Weston used to work fine. Now it just doesn't render. However it falls back to console if you ctrl+alt+backspace (which probably means its not crashing.)

Anyone noticed the same. Or has a solution to it?

[socratis]

There is an issue with the 5.0.0 kernel and the Guest Additions (GAs), which has been resolved with 6.0.4, see the 6.0.x changelog:

• Linux hosts and guests: fix for building kernel modules against Linux 5.0. Thank you Kyle Laker

Since you didn't mention your VirtualBox version, can you try that? And if you're using the Arch VirtualBox/GAs, can you let the Arch people know?

And BTW, as far as I know, the Wayland part has been removed, AFAIK, see the 5.2.x changelog, specifically for 5.2.22:

• Linux Additions: disable 3D for recent guests using Wayland (bug #18116)

[l0ner]

I am on 6.0.4. Arch latest. The guest Arch where i test weston was working fine before i updated to the latest kernel and guest modules. And i cant downgrade.

Virtualbox (the interface on the host) runs as an xwayland app but that doesn't matter (even thougt i'd love it to run natively with Qt)