Hello,

yes it's set to VMSVGA, and has been for many years, and we never had any report that it was a problem.

It would help a lot if you could explain what version of virtualbox you're running, on which OS, which hardware, etc etc... And then what is the problem you're having (screenshots?) so that we can try to reproduce it and understand it on our side.

Please provide as much details as you can. Thanks.

I hope the PDF contains all the information you wanted. As I said when opening the bug, I did not notice any problems running the VMSVGA driver. The only problem I had was error messages during the boot process and not knowing what effect they had on the VM.

Help when I try to upload a 193k PDF file the upload manager errors out with a long string of html that it does not render. My PDF file opens fine in Brave, Chrome, and Edge and contains text and a couple of screen shots. Any suggestions?

Kali VM version:

└─$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="2025.1"
VERSION="2025.1"
VERSION_CODENAME=kali-rolling
ID=kali
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.kali.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.kali.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.kali.org/"
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"

With VmSVGA driver:

└─$ dmesg |grep ERROR
[ 6.154363] vmwgfx 0000:00:02.0: [drm] ERROR vmwgfx seems to be running on an unsupported hypervisor.
[ 6.154364] vmwgfx 0000:00:02.0: [drm] ERROR This configuration is likely broken.
[ 6.154365] vmwgfx 0000:00:02.0: [drm] ERROR Please switch to a supported graphics device to avoid problems.

With VBoxSVGA driver:

┌──(mark㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ dmesg |grep ERROR

┌──(mark㉿kali)-[~]
└─$
Note: No errors were found.

Host Machine:

OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Home
Version 10.0.26100 Build 26100
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name MARKS-GAMING
System Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
System Model ROG Strix G713IM_G713IM
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics, 2901 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends International, LLC. G713IM.329, 3/1/2023
SMBIOS Version 3.2
Embedded Controller Version 0.80
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
BaseBoard Product G713IM
BaseBoard Version 1.0
Platform Role Mobile
Secure Boot State On
PCR7 Configuration Elevation Required to View
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.26100.1"
User Name MARKS-GAMING\mhenw
Time Zone Pacific Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 32.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 31.4 GB
Available Physical Memory 19.1 GB
Total Virtual Memory 33.4 GB
Available Virtual Memory 13.4 GB
Page File Space 2.00 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Kernel DMA Protection On
Virtualization-based security Running
Virtualization-based security Required Security Properties
Virtualization-based security Available Security Properties Base Virtualization Support, Secure Boot, DMA Protection, UEFI Code Readonly, Mode Based Execution Control
Virtualization-based security Services Configured Hypervisor enforced Code Integrity
Virtualization-based security Services Running Hypervisor enforced Code Integrity
App Control for Business policy Enforced
App Control for Business user mode policy Off
Automatic Device Encryption Support Elevation Required to View
A hypervisor has been detected. Features required for Hyper-V will not be displayed.

VirtualBox Version:
PS C:\Users\mhenw> Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Oracle\VirtualBox" | Select-Object VersionExt

VersionExt

7.1.6