Seriously, who needs 3D acceleration when it’s close to 0 (although I hope the situation will improve over time)?Ĭ) Compile VirtualBox from source by applying the patch that can be found here.

This means that those affected by the problem have several options left:Ī) Use a non-nVidia card, sending nVidia folks where Linus Torvalds once sent them ( in this video).ī) Use the non-proprietary, free driver called nouveau with all the performance hit this implicates. Unfortunately, the VirtualBox folks refused to patch this, as this breaks some functionality for an unnamed “paying customer” of theirs. Basically, it’s a bug report with some folks offering a solution which involves changing a single line in the OpenGL rendering code. If you use an nVidia graphics card on your Ubuntu machine and wish to use a Windows (or, as far as I have read, basically any) virtual machine on VirtualBox for tasks that Ubuntu is not (yet) good enough and wish to enable the “experimental” 3D acceleration support, you will be unpleasantly surprised to find out that this 3D support is virtually unusable, flickering and blinking at will.Īs it turns out, this problem was noticed several years ago in this forum. Seems that VirtualBox has a strange problem. The patched library should be installed in the /usr/lib/virtualbox/ directory, as explained below. The patches themselves are moved to a separate page: Also, for 64 bit Linux, a patched library file is provided which can be installed “on top” of an existing VirtualBox installation. TL DR: The goal of this article is to explain why VirtualBox machines on Linux host flicker if your host has an nVidia video card and the VM has 3D support enabled. How to “cure” screen flickering in VirtualBox on Ubuntu with a Windows 10 guest and 3D support enabled

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