Upgrade Guest Additions from 4.3 to 5.0.20 on Unutun 12.04

[Mohfus]

Hi, I have some VMs (Ubuntu 12.04 with Cinnamon) and it work fine with the 4.3 Guest Addition (3d and all integrations like rezise, mouse and clipboard).

When I upgrade the guest addition to 5.0.20 I lose the 3D and the resize integration. I lost one VM because of this. The others, I'm not upgrading for now.

The result of the command: /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p

BEFORE THE UPGRADE:
OpenGL vendor string: Humper
OpenGL renderer string: Chromium
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Chromium 1.9

Not software rendered: yes
Not blacklisted: yes
GLX fbconfig: yes
GLX texture from pixmap: yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program: yes
GL fragment program: yes
GL vertex buffer object: yes
GL framebuffer object: yes
GL version is 1.4+: yes

Unity 3D supported: yes


AFTER THE UPGRADE:
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4

Not software rendered: no
Not blacklisted: yes
GLX fbconfig: yes
GLX texture from pixmap: yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program: yes
GL fragment program: yes
GL vertex buffer object: yes
GL framebuffer object: yes
GL version is 1.4+: yes

Unity 3D supported: no

The OS is really faster when not upgrading. Pls, help me!

[Perryg]

Post one of the guests log file ( as an attachment ). Right click on the guest in the Main Manager then click show log. Save and post as an attachment. Compress if it is too large to post.

[Mohfus]

This is the one log I can post, the other (hardening) is too big.

[Perryg]

OK so we need to see the /var/log/vboxadd-install.log from the one you updated and it failes. I suspect an outdated GCC maybe but not sure yet. Also post the results of uname -r from the guests terminal

[socratis]

I can confirm that upgrading a Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit from 5.0.16 to 5.0.18 or 50.0.20 or even the test-build 5.0.21-107220 (the latest as of this writing) does indeed drop the 3D support to software rendering, i.e. VMWare/Gallium instead of Humper/Chromium. /var/log/vboxadd-install.log reveals nothing of interest:

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Uninstalling modules from DKMS
Attempting to install using DKMS

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/5.0.21/source ->
                 /usr/src/vboxguest-5.0.21

DKMS: add completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area....
make KERNELRELEASE=3.2.0-101-generic-pae -C /lib/modules/3.2.0-101-generic-pae/build M=/var/lib/dkms/vboxguest/5.0.21/build.............
cleaning build area....

DKMS: build completed.

vboxguest:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.2.0-101-generic-pae/updates/dkms/

vboxsf.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.2.0-101-generic-pae/updates/dkms/

vboxvideo.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.2.0-101-generic-pae/updates/dkms/

depmod....

DKMS: install completed.
Creating user for the Guest Additions.
Creating udev rule for the Guest Additions kernel module.

But then I noticed this gem in the Downloads page:

Guest Additions update for Linux guests

After the 5.0.20 release, the Guest Additions were updated to support Linux guests with X.Org Server running without root privileges and to fix certain 3D acceleration-related issues. If you experience regressions, please report them in our bugtracker and try to use the 5.0.16 Additions:

• VirtualBox 5.0.16 Guest Additions installer image: All distributions.

It should be saying "after the 5.0.18 release", IMHO, but we'll see if that's the case. Funny thing is that in a Mint 17 64-bit which is based on Ubuntu 14.04 it doesn't happen, it works fine.

I will look for an existing bug report and I'll keep you posted.

[billrobb]

Hi,
After I upgraded to 5.0.20, the guest resolution didn't fit the host resolution (up until the update I had the desktop resolution 1920*1080 but after I only had 800*600).
As socratis advised I installed 5.0.16 and everything went back to normal. He asked me to also install 5.0.18 which I did and got the resolution problem again. So I guess the bug is in 5.0.18...
I'll keep working with 5.0.16 until a fix is ready.

[Mohfus]

I tried 5.0.16 and 5.0.14 and I still have no 3D. But at least I have the correct resolution.

OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4

Not software rendered: no
Not blacklisted: yes
GLX fbconfig: yes
GLX texture from pixmap: yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program: yes
GL fragment program: yes
GL vertex buffer object: yes
GL framebuffer object: yes
GL version is 1.4+: yes

Unity 3D supported: no

[socratis]

Please read again Perry's last post about the installation log. Preferably with GAs < 5.0.16 so that we can take out of the equation the changes introduced to Xorg in 5.0.18 and later.

[Mohfus]

last Addon installed: 5.0.16