VirtualBox, 3D acceleration & GNOME - icons are not visible

[Perryg]

That's a false negative because VirtualBox does not use the same driver/s that OS uses. The important part is the chromium and humper.

Hopefully one day the reporting will get better.

[loukingjr]

okay, thanks. It is obviously working.

[nu2openS]

What does the following say about the 3D acceleration of the guest?

Run in the guests terminal

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glxinfo | grep OpenGL

Also you were asked to provide the guests log file (as an attachment) provide this or no one can actually help you.

Sorry, missed the sentence with the log file. Here it is. And here is the output from the terminal of the guest:

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libGL error: pci id for fd 4: 80ee:beef, driver (null)
OpenGL Warning: glFlushVertexArrayRangeNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glVertexArrayRangeNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerInputNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerOutputNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameterfNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameteriNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glFinalCombinerInputNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerInputParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerInputParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerOutputParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerOutputParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetFinalCombinerInputParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetFinalCombinerInputParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glDeleteFencesNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glFinishFenceNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGenFencesNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetFenceivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glIsFenceNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glSetFenceNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glTestFenceNV not found in mesa table
libGL error: core dri or dri2 extension not found
libGL error: failed to load driver: vboxvideo
OpenGL vendor string: Humper
OpenGL renderer string: Chromium
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Chromium 1.9
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.00 - Build 9.17.10.2843
OpenGL extensions:

[Perryg]

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00:00:01.883943 OpenGL Info: Render SPU: GL_RENDERER: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000

IIRC there were issues with this host adapter if you were running old drivers. Make sure that you have them up-to-date.

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VirtualBox VM 4.3.26 r98988 win.amd64 (Mar 16 2015 17:35:35) release log
00:00:09.235673 Guest Additions information report: Version 4.3.18 r96516 '4.3.18_OSE'

I also see that you are running the repo fork of the guest additions. Bad idea. Purge them and install the ones from your build.

[loukingjr]

I agree that using the GAs that come pre-installed is a bad idea. However, I haven't replaced them and I don't have the same problem. I wasn't planning on keeping OpenSUSE.

[nu2openS]

Make sure that you have them up-to-date.

Did that - updated the Intel HD Graphics 4000 Display Driver using Lenovo System Update to the newest version: 9.18.10.3359 - but without any change to the behavior.

I also see that you are running the repo fork of the guest additions. Bad idea. Purge them and install the ones from your build.

Why is it a bad idea? I confused - I thought the software provided by default with a repo is the one that has been tested throughly and is compatible and will be updated automatically. And installing the guest additions via Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD Image is just the workaround.

Well, anyway. I uninstalled them and installed the guest additions ISO provided by the VirtualBox host application. (Is that what you meant by "the ones from your build"?). No improvement here either.

Btw, the problem only occurs when going to Activities > Show Application > All - the icons of the frequently used applications are shown (see screenshot).

[loukingjr]

I have the exact opposite behavior. The first pic I posted is with "All" selected.


This one is with "Frequent" selected. It doesn't seem anything will ever show in mine. I opened FF maybe 10 times and it still doesn't show. Bizarre.

[jaan]

I have a similar problem, last week after update in openSUSE tumbleweed (guest) on windows 7 (virtualbox 4.3.26), firefox yast and other programs were invisible or only showed window frames - in KDE, xfce, lxde.. After reading https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread. ... 824ac65c6a I disabled 3D for guest and it's working.

Edit: I had manualy installed GA from iso that comes vith virtualbox, so it's not an issue of old GA version or some opensuse's build

[loukingjr]

Removing the pre-installed guest additions and installing the official guest additions resolved the issue I was having. My install of OpenSUSE did not have the /Media directory so I had to create it before installing the GAs in order to Automount Shared Folders. OpenSUSE is NOT my fav Linux distro.

[Perryg]

Like I said above running the repo GAs is not a good idea, but I would never be a told you so.

[loukingjr]

Like I said above running the repo GAs is not a good idea, but I would never be a told you so.

lol well I only installed OpenSUSE to see what the OP was talking about. If I wanted to use it I would have replaced them sooner.
OpenSUSE has too many hoops to jump through for my taste.
Just to install VLC I had to add the community repos, then the packman repos, then once installed, if you don't switch the video output for VLC to x11, VLC crashes. That was a new one on me. lol

[Jolyon-z]

I met this issue too. It works fine if I disable the 3D acceleration.

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glxinfo | grep OpenGL
libGL error: pci id for fd 4: 80ee:beef, driver (null)
libGL error: core dri or dri2 extension not found
libGL error: failed to load driver: vboxvideo
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 256 bits)
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
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uname -a
Linux debian-dev01 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6 (2015-11-09) x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Gnome 3.14.1

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VBoxClient -V
5.0.10r104061
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