On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 15:19 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > Tested this morning in the latest VBox 7.0.16 (which in theory > supports kernel 6.8). Running on macOS Monterey, 12.7.4 (latest > release for my hardware). > > GNOME edition: I got a message that my VM had outdated Guest > Additions, which I took as a good sign. However, installation froze > hard, locking the mouse pointer and whole VM, at 8% complete. > > KDE edition: severe text corruption made it inoperable; almost no text > visible in the installer.
Did a bit more testing. I can't reproduce the install freeze at all, when I avoid the graphics issues, installs always complete fine for me. How much RAM did you allocate to the VM? I noticed VBox and VMware both seem to want to default to 2GB, which is adorably optimistic; 3GB or 4GB is much safer. (This isn't specific to Fedora, I had an Ubuntu 22.04 test install grind to a halt in a VM when I only gave it 2GB). I did all my testing with 3GB RAM. Using the 'VMSVGA' video adapter with 3D passthrough enabled, on KDE, the desktop and most apps render fine but I see severe installer corruption that makes it unusable (if anything worse than you described, the entire UI is kinda shot through with corrupted black triangles, not just text). Other GTK 3-based apps are fine, weirdly, only the installer is messed up, no idea why. I forgot to try GTK 4- based apps on KDE but I'd guess they're broken. On GNOME, the desktop displays fine, but GTK 4-based apps don't display correctly at all - that's https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274930 / https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/11008 - and I see the same corruption in the installer, so I'm actually surprised you got as far as you did; maybe you had 3D acceleration disabled for the GNOME test, or something? Using 'VMSVGA' with 3D passthrough disabled, GNOME works fine in every way and installs fine. KDE consistently plays its login sound but never actually manages to render a desktop. Using 'VBoxSVGA' adapter with 3D passthrough disabled (it seems you cannot use 3D passthrough with this adapter, if you select this adapter but check the 3D passthrough box, vbox will silently switch back to 'VMSVGA', so be careful...), both desktops work fine and install fine. So, I guess that would be my recommendation for VirtualBox. -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @ad...@fosstodon.org https://www.happyassassin.net -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
