Bug 2276102 - Severe graphical corruption in anaconda (Fedora installer) when running on VirtualBox with 3D passthrough enabled
Summary: Severe graphical corruption in anaconda (Fedora installer) when running on Vi...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mesa
Version: 40
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-04-19 18:09 UTC by Adam Williamson
Modified: 2024-04-19 18:23 UTC (History)
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picture of corrupted anaconda #1 (2.98 MB, image/jpeg)
2024-04-19 18:17 UTC, Adam Williamson 		no flags Details
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Description Adam Williamson 2024-04-19 18:09:31 UTC 
If you boot a Fedora 40 Final Workstation or KDE live image in VirtualBox with 3D passthrough enabled (using the "VMSVGA" adapter, which is the only one for which 3D passthrough seems to work), then run the Fedora installer, it shows extensive visual corruption, to the point of unusability. See attached pictures.

This seems to be different from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274930 (but may be somehow related). anaconda uses GTK 3, not GTK 4 (via gobject introspection). Other GTK 3 apps (I tested firewall-config and Firefox) don't seem to be affected.

With 3D passthrough disabled, anaconda seems to work fine.

I also did not observe this bug on VMware, it seems to be specific to VirtualBox.

I was testing on a Windows 11 23H2 host using Intel graphics, with the latest upstream VirtualBox as of yesterday.
Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2024-04-19 18:17:26 UTC 
Created attachment 2027958 [details]
picture of corrupted anaconda #1
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