[Bug]: Ubuntu 24.04 (and newer) display issues with newer Wayland and 3D Acceleration + vmwgfx crash

[diovoib]

Version

7.2.2

Host OS Type

Windows

Host OS name + version

Windows 11 24H2 26100.6584

Host Architecture

x86

Guest OS Type

Linux

Guest Architecture

x86

Guest OS name + version

Ubuntu 24.04

Component

Unspecified

What happened?

I configured new VirtualBox machine for Ubuntu 24.04.03 on Lenovo Intel (12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1245U (1.60 GHz)) based laptop. Enabled Secure Boot, increased video memory to 256MB and enabled 3D acceleration, PAE, nested VT. Nested pages were already enabled.
Then started Ubuntu installer (uses Wayland), wizard is displayed correctly. Then closed the wizard and opened settings. The settings window shows white box instead of settings.
Desktop, side panel with icons, menus, wizard are displayed correctly.

Last drawn graphics visible in the area of the window. Window (well, the white area) reacts correctly to resize with corners and closing via kbd shortcut or invisible 'button' in the right upper corner.

Then disabled 3D Acceleration in Virtual Box and the settings are displayed correctly.

Remarks:

• Wayland on Ubuntu 22.04 displays almost all correctly (except libre office based apps which in turn are displayed fine in 24.04 Wayland with 3d acceleration enabled).

Some journal content (sorry for the images, but shared clipboard didn't work at this stage), some content show that there are some version of addons modules integrated into live iso:

How can we reproduce this?

1. Configure Ubuntu machine
2. Enable 3d acceleration
3. boot from 24.04 live iso
4. when booted close the wizzard and open settings.
5. White box instead of settings is show.

Did you upload all of your necessary log files, screenshots, etc.?

• Yes, I've uploaded all pertinent files to this issue.

[diovoib]

So, for anyone thinking this is an installer issue. Here is how 3D Acceleration and vmgfx help rendering during regular system startup:

Settings are a white box, over which there is a gnome terminal in Ubuntu 25.10

That is likely caused by the vmwgfx crash preceeded by this 3 errors about unsupported configuration (the same 3 errrors as in the installer session).

[diovoib]

Failed to open channel errors explained in #67 - harmless.