For basic Direct3DĪcceleration to work in Windows XP guests, you have to install the Guest Additions in For WindowsĨ and higher only the WDDM Direct3D video driver is available.

Install the WDDM video driver available for Windows Vista or higher. User manual section 4.2.1 wrote:Note: For the basic Direct3D acceleration to work in a Windows guest, you have to Virtualbox installed from virtualbox dot org (not ubuntu repositories), and is Version 5.1.24 r117012 (Qt5.5.1) srb Posts: 4 Joined: 20. Yet glview436 still tells me just opengl 1.1 is supported on my windows guest, and my apps requiring opengl2.0 at minimum are failing. My Host is Ubuntu 16.04, and yes my Ubuntu Host supports OpenGL 3.0 as per runningĬode: Select all Expand view Collapse view glxinfo | grep 'OpenGL version'Ĭode: Select all Expand view Collapse view OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 12.0.6 So, how do I get OpenGL 2.0 on my Windows (10) guest?Īs per the instructions, I have installed guest additions via safe mode, and yes i have 2d and 3d acceleration enabled in the vm. With VirtualBox 4.1 Windows Aero theme support is added for Windows Vista and Windows 7 guests (experimental) With VirtualBox 3.0, Direct3D 8/9 support was added for Windows guests.

OpenGL support for Windows guests was added with VirtualBox 2.1 support for Linux and Solaris followed with VirtualBox 2.2.

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