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Weston wayland (VMSVGA) stopped working with kernel 5.0
Posted: 7. Mar 2019, 12:17
by l0ner
Arch guest and arch host. VMSVGA as the driver.
Weston used to work fine. Now it just doesn't render. However it falls back to console if you ctrl+alt+backspace (which probably means its not crashing.)
Anyone noticed the same. Or has a solution to it?
Re: Weston wayland (VMSVGA) stopped working with kernel 5.0
Posted: 7. Mar 2019, 19:51
by socratis
There is an issue with the 5.0.0 kernel and the Guest Additions (GAs), which has been resolved with 6.0.4, see the
6.0.x changelog:
• Linux hosts and guests: fix for building kernel modules against Linux 5.0. Thank you Kyle Laker
Since you didn't mention your VirtualBox version, can you try that? And if you're using the Arch VirtualBox/GAs, can you let the Arch people know?
And BTW, as far as I know, the Wayland part has been removed, AFAIK, see the
5.2.x changelog, specifically for 5.2.22:
• Linux Additions: disable 3D for recent guests using Wayland (bug #18116)
Re: Weston wayland (VMSVGA) stopped working with kernel 5.0
Posted: 7. Mar 2019, 20:24
by l0ner
I am on 6.0.4. Arch latest. The guest Arch where i test weston was working fine before i updated to the latest kernel and guest modules. And i cant downgrade.
Virtualbox (the interface on the host) runs as an xwayland app but that doesn't matter (even thougt i'd love it to run natively with Qt)