Had the exact same issue (except it was a W7Pro VM under Mint (Debian) Linux. This fixed the problem for me too, thanks!meowsqueak wrote:Fellow forum user Danthemanintan kindly sent me this to try:
I'm happy to say that this seems to have successfully worked around the problem I reported. I still had the original issue even with the latest version of VirtualBox, so this makes Chrome usable again. Thanks Danthemanintan!Start Google Chrome then click the button in the upper right hand corner that is marked with three horizontal bars. Choose Settings, scroll to the bottom. Choose advanced settings, scroll down to System and uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available". Close Google Chrome and reopen it.
Chrome browser in Win7 guest crashes VM
Re: Chrome browser in Win7 guest crashes VM
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Re: Chrome browser in Win7 guest crashes VM
Well, I've tried and tried for over a year and still can't get Chrome to crash on my Windows 7 Pro guest with hardware acceleration enabled.
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Re: Chrome browser in Win7 guest crashes VM
Recently I started having this problem with my Windows 10 installation on Ubuntu 14.04 and VirtualBox 5.0.22. I never had this problem before neither with Windows 7 nor with 10, and I am using VirtualBox for a while now.
Anyway, wanted to say, deactivating the hardware acceleration has helped. Thanks.
Anyway, wanted to say, deactivating the hardware acceleration has helped. Thanks.
Re: Chrome browser in Win7 guest crashes VM
Different setup, same problem, same solution here.
Issue: Extreme flickering in Chrome when using 3D support
Host: Fedora 25
Guest: Windows 7
VirtualBox version: 5.1.22 r115126 (Qt5.7.1)
Chrome version: 57.0.2987.133
Workaround: Disable hardware acceleration in Chrome.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Issue: Extreme flickering in Chrome when using 3D support
Host: Fedora 25
Guest: Windows 7
VirtualBox version: 5.1.22 r115126 (Qt5.7.1)
Chrome version: 57.0.2987.133
Workaround: Disable hardware acceleration in Chrome.
Thanks for the suggestion!
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Re: Chrome browser in Win7 guest crashes VM
For the record: A similar problem still exists today (end of July 2021) here, with the following setup:
Only when disabling the hardware acceleration in Chrome's settings, Google Maps is working without any problems again.
Luckily, Chrome offers an option to disable the usage of hardware acceleration, but I wonder if there might be other applications that insist on using hardware acceleration, which then would lead to unresolvable problems.
- Host: Up-to-date Windows 10 on an AMD Threadripper system (AMD X399 chipset, AMD Threadripper 1950X)
- VM: Up-to-date Windows 10
- Virtualbox: Latest version 6.1.24 r145767 (Qt5.6.2)
Only when disabling the hardware acceleration in Chrome's settings, Google Maps is working without any problems again.
Luckily, Chrome offers an option to disable the usage of hardware acceleration, but I wonder if there might be other applications that insist on using hardware acceleration, which then would lead to unresolvable problems.