3D Acceleration Fails with Compiz guest

[Matteus Blanc]

Overview:With 3D acceleration checked in virtualbox, compiz does not run properly in an arch Linux guest with XFCE Desktop Manager. This has been checked on all 4.x versions of VirtualBox.

Symptoms: With indirect rendering and loose binding the cube functions with both the keyboard and mouse but it is not possible to interact with the desktop e.g. clicking on icons won't launch any apps. If you attempt to move a window then there is no response until you invoke the cube. So basically the desktop is only redrawn with you do something with the cube.

Without indirect rendering you just get a black screen. If you do this from a root desktop then moving the mouse does reveal the desktop below the black screen but the cube is unusable (very laggy response, lots of tearing etc). The same thing in a non root desktop just presents a black screen.

This is not affected by changing out of full screen in the vm.

Host:

• INSPIRON 7520 BASE
• PROCESSOR : INTEL CORE I7-3632QM
• GRAPHICS : 2GB AMD RADEON HD 7730M
• OPERATING SYSTEM : WINDOWS 8 64 BIT, EN
• VirtualBox 4.2.8

Guest:

• DISTRO ARCH
• KERNEL 3.7.9-2
• DESKTOP XFCE 4.10.0-5
• COMPIZ CORE 0.8.8-4

Other: I found a script which should confirm whether compiz will run {designed for bare metal install not vm}. The output is: Gathering information about your system...

• Distribution: Arch Linux
• Desktop environment: Xfce
• Graphics chip: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter
• Driver in use: ati
• Rendering method: AIGLX

Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system...

• Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [ OK ]
• Checking for non power of two support... [ OK ]
• Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
• Checking for FBConfig... [ OK ]
• Checking for hardware/setup problems... [ OK ]

[Matteus Blanc]

VirtualBox log with bug condition invoked

[Matteus Blanc]

Latest drivers for host hardware and os. VirtualBox Guest Utils/Additions 4.2.8-1

[Matteus Blanc]

Xorg log when bug occurs.

[Matteus Blanc]

Looks like this is a result of #11503

[Matteus Blanc]

Confirmed in 4.2.10 with appropriate vbox tools from arch repo

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.