Opened 20 months ago
Last modified 19 months ago
#21448 new defect
VirtualBox 7 VM Freezes or UI glitches
| Reported by: | Jean-Paul Ebejer | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox-7.0.6 |
| Keywords: | freeze, 3d hardware acceleration, UI glitches | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Linux |
Description
Using VirtualBox VM 7.0.6 (guest additions installed) with an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host and Win 11 guest, with an nvidia RTX 3080 Ti (and attaching log).
If I use the above combination I get frequent VM freezes (even if I leave it for hours). This happens regularly especially when I launch a browser (both MS edge and firefox exhibited this behaviour). The only way to recover is with a "power off" of the VM.
I have read in the forums (second post here: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=107371) that this happens with VB7 and the solution for it is to enable 3D acceleration in the settings. I do that and the VM stops freezing BUT ...
The UI is almost unusable as it is broken in multiple ways (even when switching transparency off): broken borders, broken backgrounds, flickering, fonts looks rough, buttons disappear, etc etc etc. For example when I launch MS Office, I get an empty (white) panel and nothing else. This is certainly related to 3D acceleration as when I set a regedit key (DisableHardwareAcceleration to 1) to disable 3D hardware acc. for office 365, this starts working normally. But the rest of the OS still suffers from the visual glitches.
Let me know if you require any more info.
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Change History (4)
by , 20 months ago
| Attachment: | Win 11 Pro-2023-01-30-16-07-22.log added |
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comment:2 by , 20 months ago
Same exact issue here, Win 11 host with Win 11 guest.
Without 3D acceleration the machine freezes up, WITH 3d acceleration the UI is unusable.
There's now a TON of posts about this, please address the issue.
Thank you.
comment:3 by , 19 months ago
I have found a temporary workaround for this. For graphics controller (with 3D hardware acceleration off) use VBoxVGA. In the limited time that I have used it with this setting, Win11 guest has not frozen and there are no annoying Win UI glitches like the ones you see with 3D hardware acceleration on.
Let me know if this also fixes it for you.


VM log with 3D hardware acceleration on