OS complaints about VMSVGA and Virtualbox complaints vBoxSVGA

[L1512191]

Host = Windows 11 (24H2)
Guest = LMDE (Debian 13 based)
vBox = 7.2.2

During guest OS boot, I'm presented with:

vmwgfx seems to be running on an unsupported hypervisor
This configuration is likely broken
Please switch to a supported graphics device to avoid problems

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When searching for the solution, I see that the reccomendation online is to switch from VMSVGA to vBoxSVGA.
But when I do, Virtualbox starts to complain:

The virtual machine is configured to use a graphics controller other than the recommended one
(VMSVGA). Please consider switching unless you have a reason to keep the currently selected
graphics controller.

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Using vBoxSVGA, I can also see that the 3D Acceleration is greyed out.

Does anyone have the "correct" solution here?
And why are Virtualbox and the OS conflicting about which GFX controller to use? Someone should fix this fingerpointing.

[multiOS]

vmwgfx is a VMware driver and is not compatible with VirtualBox.

VirtualBox provides VMSVGA for Linux-based VMs and VBoxSVGA for 'modern' (post-Windows XP) Windows installations. They are also the default template settings provided when creating new VMs.

[L1512191]

Well I did not choose any of these.

Virtalbox choose VMSVGA by itself when I told it I were going to install a Debian based OS.

The Guest OS choose the vmwgfx driver by itself, even after I installed the Linux Guest Additions and rebooted.

Now I'm stuck between letting the OS complain, or letting Virtualbox complain... Neither is optimal.

[nick smith]

vmwgfx is a VMware driver and is not compatible with VirtualBox.

VirtualBox provides VMSVGA for Linux-based VMs and VBoxSVGA for 'modern' (post-Windows XP) Windows installations. They are also the default template settings provided when creating new VMs.

The confusion stems from the guest OS loading the incompatible vmwgfx driver.

[xorbe]

vmwgfx is broken since kernel 6.16, and the cursor does not show in virtualbox.

viewtopic.php?t=114130
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc ... /issues/78
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2386657

openSUSE Tumbleweed guest on Win11 25H2 host. I can only choose VMSVGA, the others do not work and are tagged as not compatible within virtualbox. It appears that vmwgfx is required.