<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Virtualbox with 3D acceleration and with installed vbox-additions crashes" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92515#c5">Comment # 5</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Virtualbox with 3D acceleration and with installed vbox-additions crashes" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92515">bug 92515</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:imirkin@alum.mit.edu" title="Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>"> Ilia Mirkin</a> <pre>I think it's been pretty much established that vbox uses opengl from multiple threads at the same time. This is likely to lead to crashes with nouveau... no amount of upgrading will fix this. [However it should be noted that 10.6 series was end-of-lifed a long time ago... 11.0.x series is the supported one, with 11.1 coming out soon.] Resolving this issue is very low on my todo list. Right now I'm aware of two applications this affects -- vbox, a proprietary closed source app which includes a kernel module that taints the kernel, and warsow 2.0, which just came out, and includes a workaround to disable the multithreading. And this wouldn't matter, but it's also a giant pain to fix in a way that doesn't break perf for 99.9999% of the users.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>