Ubuntu Budgie v19.10, on VirtualBox 6.1 Enabling 3D Acceleration support causing bad Desktop screen

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VirtualBox 6.1 - Enabling 3D Acceleration support causing bad Desktop screen

Trying to install Ubuntu Budgie v19.10, on VirtualBox 6.1 and end up with bad desktop screen error.

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System Info


System:
  Host: lboxservmac1 Kernel: 5.4.8-050408-generic x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: Budgie 10.5 Distro: Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) 
Machine:
  Type: Virtualbox System: innotek product: VirtualBox v: 1.2 
  serial: <root required> 
  Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: <root required> 
  BIOS: innotek v: VirtualBox date: 12/01/2006 
CPU:
  Topology: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X bits: 64 type: MCP 
  L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
  Speed: 3593 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3593 2: 3593 3: 3593 
  4: 3593 5: 3593 6: 3593 7: 3593 8: 3593 
Graphics:
  Device-1: VMware SVGA II Adapter driver: vmwgfx v: 2.15.0.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.5 driver: vmware 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1141x760~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: SVGA3D; build v: 2.1 Mesa 19.2.1 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801AA AC97 Audio driver: snd_intel8x0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.8-050408-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000 
  IF: enp0s3 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 08:00:27:6c:87:04 
  Device-2: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI type: network bridge 
  driver: piix4_smbus 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 500.00 GiB used: 10.22 GiB (2.0%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: VirtualBox model: VBOX HARDDISK size: 500.00 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 497.85 GiB used: 9.79 GiB (2.0%) fs: xfs dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-2: /boot size: 1.88 GiB used: 440.0 MiB (22.9%) fs: ext2 dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:
  Message: No sensors data was found. Is sensors configured? 
Info:
  Processes: 272 Uptime: 3m Memory: 15.64 GiB used: 838.7 MiB (5.2%) 
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.36 

lbox@lboxservmac1:~$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p 
OpenGL vendor string:   VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: SVGA3D; build: RELEASE;  LLVM;
OpenGL version string:  2.1 Mesa 19.2.1

Not software rendered:    yes
Not blacklisted:          yes
GLX fbconfig:             yes
GLX texture from pixmap:  yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program:        yes
GL fragment program:      yes
GL vertex buffer object:  yes
GL framebuffer object:    yes
GL version is 1.4+:       yes

Unity 3D supported:       yes

Disabling the 3D acceleration, screen looks OK

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lbox@lboxservmac1:~$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p 
OpenGL vendor string:   VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 9.0, 128 bits)
OpenGL version string:  3.1 Mesa 19.2.1

Not software rendered:    no
Not blacklisted:          yes
GLX fbconfig:             yes
GLX texture from pixmap:  yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program:        yes
GL fragment program:      yes
GL vertex buffer object:  yes
GL framebuffer object:    yes
GL version is 1.4+:       yes

Unity 3D supported:       no

Plz let me know if any additional details required

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Please report this bug to Oracle themselves. There isnt anything we can do ourselves.

Thx

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yeah, VB 6.1 is not the best release.

In there attempt to make people switch from the VBoxVGA for the 3D acceleration, they caused a lot of problems.