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Hi all,

I've some graphical glitches with IE8 under XP SP3 in my guest. Please see my attachment about this problem. Is there a way to get around this?

Regards,
Martin

PS: Using Virtualbox 3.0.12 without 3d accel

Hi,

this looks like a video or memory problem. Try enable 3D acceleration on VB, on guest try install VB additions with DirectX support and try all Windows updates for Windows XP and IE8. IE8 rendering core is builded on DirectX. Maybe try to add some memory to guest, for WinXP SP3 is minimum 512MB RAM and 16MB VRAM.

Enjoy

IE8 works fine in XPpro with as little as 128Meg of RAM (albeit a little slow) and you do not need the 3D effects to get proper rendering.
You do however need the guest additions and it appears that you do have them.

The easiest way to see what the problem is would be to post the guests log file (as attachment) so we can see what is missing.
As well as the host OS and RAM.

Okay, XPPro have minimum requirements 128MB RAM, but on this, system is very slowly, because it still swap memory to pagefile. IE8 have minimum 64MB on XPPro (32-bit). But these glitches are from any system component, as i mean it because system does not have amount free resources. I would add some RAM (as my practice minimum is 512MB for XPPro SP3). If mfernau install IE8 via Microsoft (or Windows) Updates, then i would try to download IE8 installer separately and simply reinstall IE8 from this installer.

Perryg, mfernau have guest additions installed - see icon on his system tray.

maverick_cz wrote:Okay, XPPro have minimum requirements 128MB RAM, but on this, system is very slowly, because it still swap memory to pagefile. IE8 have minimum 64MB on XPPro (32-bit). But these glitches are from any system component, as i mean it because system does not have amount free resources. I would add some RAM (as my practice minimum is 512MB for XPPro SP3). If mfernau install IE8 via Microsoft (or Windows) Updates, then i would try to download IE8 installer separately and simply reinstall IE8 from this installer.

Perryg, mfernau have guest additions installed - see icon on his system tray.

Thank you for your input maverick_cz.
I did say that it is required that they have the guest additions and that they were in fact installed.
What I need is the log file to see what the problem is.
While it may be slow and of course swapping would be involved, the graphics not rendering properly would not be effected this way.

Also from what I see they already have IE installed and are attempting an update.

Perryg wrote:Also from what I see they already have IE installed and are attempting an update.

OK, but some MS updates must be downloaded and installed separately (as XP SP3, .NET 3.5 etc. for example). MS updates is more than one pass to done. When IE8 is already installed, then i would be reinstall it as first step. For example, previous IE7 in updates service have on some machines problems when install as update and reinstall it solve these problems and go IE7 fully working.

Okay, thanks for your replies!
It seems that it's a host problem. I'm currently not on the same host but using the same Images. On this host IE8 looks fine.
Both hosts (the one with the glitches and this one) are AMD64 Linux Systems. The only difference is the graphic card. Both hosts are having ndivia cards plugged. But different chipsets and maybe differend driver versions.
Tomorrow I'm sitting infront of the "problem"-host and going to paste the client log then. Maybe you can see anything helpful in it.

Thanks

@mfernau,
On the different hosts, are you using graphic effects? Compiz and if so are they on both the same? Knowing the differences would help.
I will watch for you log file tomorrow and see if I can tell what the problem may be.

I'm really confused because the glitches are now absent on the other host too
I'm sorry for wasting your time.. I'm sure that I changed nothing but indeed the IE8 is displayed correctly....

strange