{"id":16217,"date":"2024-11-12T14:27:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?p=16217"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:35","slug":"virtualbox-3d-acceleration-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2024\/virtualbox-3d-acceleration-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox 3D Acceleration Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        VirtualBox 3D Acceleration Issue\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>VirtualBox can take advantage of some of the capabilities of your host computer&#8217;s GPU to improve performance. However, enabling this feature can often cause problems.  In particular, new version upgrades of VirtualBox often has 3D acceleration problems.  These problems usually get ironed out as further updates are released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color:red\"><em><strong>This issue has been documented by some users of VirtualBox 7.0.x when running older Virtual Machines<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your Virtual Machine is experiencing any of these issues, you should consider disabling the setting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Unusually slow and poor performance while the Virtual Machine is running<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inconsistent performance (sometimes fine, other times very slow)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Regular crashing, especially when opening graphical apps within the Virtual Machine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Virtual Machine hangs or crashes during boot (this often will happen to a previously working VM that stops working after a VirtualBox upgrade)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"disabling-3d-acceleration\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disabling 3D Acceleration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This setting is adjusted in the VirtualBox Virtual Machine&#8217;s settings (see image below):<br>\n<em>uncheck the setting to disable<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Display<\/strong> -> <strong>Screen<\/strong> -> <strong>Extended Features:<\/strong> -> <strong><em>Enable 3D Acceleration<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"633\" height=\"459\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/virtualbox-3d-acceleration-setting.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/virtualbox-3d-acceleration-setting.png 633w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/virtualbox-3d-acceleration-setting-160x116.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/virtualbox-3d-acceleration-setting-240x174.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/virtualbox-3d-acceleration-setting-400x290.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/virtualbox-3d-acceleration-setting-360x261.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VirtualBox can take advantage of some of the capabilities of your host computer&#8217;s GPU to improve performance. However, enabling this feature can often cause problems. In particular, new version upgrades of VirtualBox often has 3D acceleration problems. These problems usually get ironed out as further updates are released. This issue has been documented by some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualmachines-support"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16230,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217\/revisions\/16230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}