Using Vbox with 3D enabled, creates strange stuttering

[BertN45]

It looks that the sequence of frames displayed at the screen is mixed up. The display goes back say ¼ a second and that gives a very strange effect. You type a letter, that letter is erased afterwards and reappears after ¼ of a second. See the ATTACHED video. You see the same type of going back a number of frames in e.g. YouTube videos, which gives a jittery effect.

See also the Conky graphs going sometimes backward in both videos :)

The problem only occurs if I have 3D acceleration enabled in Virtualbox and it occurred with both Ubuntu 16.04 and 17.10 hosts. It only occurs at Ubuntu 16.04 guests, the problem does not occur in Ubuntu 17.10 nor in other Linux distros including Ubuntu Mate and Xubuntu. I use Virtualbox 5.2.6 with Guest Additions 5.2.7 as recommended by Oracle on their website.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-36.40~16.04.1-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Feb 22 23:35:36 2018
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: xenial
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter [80ee:beef] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-03-29 (330 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021 VirtualBox USB Tablet
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: innotek GmbH VirtualBox
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-36-generic root=UUID=82019235-3f7b-4b99-b622-d6bb790566d5 ro quiet splash zswap.enabled=1
Renderer: Software
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: innotek GmbH
dmi.bios.version: VirtualBox
dmi.board.name: VirtualBox
dmi.board.vendor: Oracle Corporation
dmi.board.version: 1.2
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Oracle Corporation
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvninnotekGmbH:bvrVirtualBox:bd12/01/2006:svninnotekGmbH:pnVirtualBox:pvr1.2:rvnOracleCorporation:rnVirtualBox:rvr1.2:cvnOracleCorporation:ct1:cvr:
dmi.product.family: Virtual Machine
dmi.product.name: VirtualBox
dmi.product.version: 1.2
dmi.sys.vendor: innotek GmbH
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160823-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.83-1~16.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 17.2.8-0ubuntu0~16.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 17.2.8-0ubuntu0~16.04.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core N/A
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau N/A
xserver.bootTime: Thu Feb 22 23:13:23 2018
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:
 Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
 Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
 modeset(0): glamor initialization failed
 AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.19.5-0ubuntu2~16.04.1
xserver.video_driver: modeset

[BertN45 (bertnijhof)]

Another video with an audio player and a progress bar and counter sometimes going backwards

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hello, can you please try the suggestions provided here?
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13653

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

specially the CR_RENDER_FORCE_PRESENT_MAIN_THREAD=0 export in /etc/environment or similar place

[BertN45 (lammert-nijhof)]

I had exactly the same problem with Ubuntu Mate 18.04. That problem disappeared when I switched from the Compiz compositor to the Marco Compton GPU compositor

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Ubuntu 16.04 and Virtualbox 5.2 is a combo not provided by Ubuntu

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

please try something in the archive

[BertN45 (lammert-nijhof)]

Why should I try an older version with more unsolved problems. I prefer the one bug I know! For my use of Ubuntu 16.04 VM to support Banking and PayPal, I can live with the problem.

Besides your last remark is somewhat stupid, I run a host OS and use 4 VMs for different purposes. I do not change my whole set up, because one guest Ubuntu 16.04 has a problem. It would be easier to swap that one distro. The host OS Xubuntu 18.04, the other 3 VMs (Windows XP from 2002, Xubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu Mate 18.04) have no problem with 3D acceleration of now version 5.2.10 of Virtualbox.

The Ubuntu team should really think about, how to support e.g. Virtualbox. You have to accept other releases then in your archive. By definition you enter a multi OS environment and you cannot prescribe, which version of Virtualbox or KVM must be used.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

>Besides your last remark is somewhat stupid, I run a host OS and use 4 VMs for different >purposes. I do not change my whole set up, because one guest Ubuntu 16.04 has a problem. It >would be easier to swap that one distro. The host OS Xubuntu 18.04, the other 3 VMs (Windows XP >from 2002, Xubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu Mate 18.04) have no problem with 3D acceleration of now >version 5.2.10 of Virtualbox.

your comment is somewhat stupid too :)
you reported an issue, I tried to triage it, you didn't answer to my requests, and you wrote something unrelated at all.
If you want this bug fixed, you should start contributing, e.g. by answering to simple questions, trying maybe a vbox in the archive to let me understand if the problem belongs to Ubuntu or not.

>The Ubuntu team should really think about, how to support e.g. Virtualbox. You have to accept >other releases then in your archive. By definition you enter a multi OS environment and you >cannot prescribe, which version of Virtualbox or KVM must be used.

yes, but I can't fix bugs if I don't own the code.
so, please complain to oracle website if you can't cope with my requests, maybe they will have some magic stuff or better knowledge to what is the issue you are talking about!