Oracle VM VirtualBox (AKA VirtualBox) is a good option for the VM host virtualization software, as it is reliable, free, and open source. Startup was slow, screen was spammed with “Failed.Using a virtual machine for development can work if you are not able to set up a development environment on your main machine for any reason. I’m running it as a guest in VirtualBox Version 6.1.12 r139181 (Qt5.6.2), running on Windows 7. Startup was slow, screen was spammed with “Failed. Only this distro fails to load its desktop completely with VMSVGA and 3D Acceleration enabled:Īs Manjaro KDE loads on the virtual machine, this message is displayed: “Failed to start VirtualBox Guest VMSVGA resize client.” A similar issue (but with Xfce) was reported by another user on the Manjaro forums, but no solution has yet been offered: Manjaro Linux Forum – 30 Aug 20 After update restarted VM. I find that all of these distros now work without problem (with VMSVGA and 3D Acceleration enabled) as VirtualBox guests: No trickery was necessary to keep these VirtualBox graphics settings (as had been necessary with prior versions of VirtualBox). In particular, window manager effects worked. I shut down my Arch-based guest, set the graphics controller to VMSVGA, enabled 3D Acceleration, and booted again into my Arch-based guest.Įverything worked perfectly in the guest, including 3D acceleration.On the guest, I performed a normal pacman update to bring VirtualBox Guest Additions to version 6.1.14.With VBoxSVGA temporarily set as the graphics controller, and with 3D Acceleration temporarily disabled, I booted into my Arch-based guest.On the host, I downloaded Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.14-140239.vbox-extpack from the Oracle site, and installed it via the VirtualBox GUI.On the host, I performed a normal pacman update to bring VirtualBox to version 6.1.14.I first updated VirtualBox and the VirtualBox Extension Pack on the host, and updated VirtualBox Guest Additions on the guest: It’s just a quirk of Virtualbox.īeginning with VirtualBox 6.1.14, which is the current version, I find that this problem has been resolved, even when running most Arch-based distros as a VirtualBox guest. Like i say it always reverts back to defaults if you go into anything.

Both settings have to be set to VBoxSVGA and 3D Acceleration set when you launch the vm.

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