[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#767250: virtualbox: Guests aborting/crashing video driver when using 3D accel under Nouveau after 4.3.18 update

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On 10/30/2014 08:01 PM, Tom Maneiro wrote:
> Yes, any VM where 3D acceleration is disabled works fine under the new version,
> although of course 3D-enabled things work slowly or not at all. I get that 3D
> is still marked as "experimental", but on 4.3.14 it actually works without
> issues for any of my 3D-enabled VMs, which I've been using for months, so these
> crashes are new to me. I mostly require 3D for testing newer Windows versions
> (like for example the Win10 tech preview, where with 3D disabled, desktop slows
> down to a crawl, and 3D acceleration is required for some components). Having a
> VM crashing right after boot exposes me to potential data loss on such VMs (or
> even in the host PC, when the video driver crashes bringing down my X session),
> and I actually use them for software development and testing purposes, hence it
> does fit the "grave" criteria, according to the description in Reportbug.
>
> I've tried both versions under the latest kernel available for Testing
> (3.16.3), and a slightly older revision of the same kernel. I don't really know
> who to blame: Virtualbox or Nouveau (again: old Virtualbox + Nouveau = OK, new
> Virtualbox + same Nouveau = crashes)

It seems there are other (non VBox) issues reported with a similar error
string.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/1314405

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Ritesh Raj Sarraf
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