Qt Creator 3.0 Welcome Mode not working in VirtualBox VM

Rolias · 14 Apr 2015, 20:36

Thanks for the answer. I just finished reinstalling (via another method) on Kubuntu and now under Kubuntu the welcome mode works. I updated my post.

If it were OpenGL support in VirtualBox I wouldn't have expected that. I downloaded VMWare (free 30 day trial) just to see if it's any better. Once I'm through testing I'll see if I can add something helpful to the bug report.

Todd Carnes · wrote on 23 Jan 2014, 00:25

It doesn't work for me when I run it natively on Fedora 20 (64bit), let alone in a VM.

sierdzio · wrote on 23 Jan 2014, 07:00

You can disable the Welcome plugin and it will work (Help->Plugins...). Or from command line:
@
qtcreator -noload Welcome -noload QmlDesigner -noload QmlProfiler
@

This should disable all parts of Qt Creator that require OpenGL.

JKSH · 14 Apr 2015, 20:40

Rolias: Try disabling 3d Acceleration on your VirtualBox VM (i.e. switch to software rendering)

Todd: Can you provide more info about your graphics drivers and supported OpenGL version?

Todd Carnes · wrote on 11 Feb 2014, 04:20

[quote author="JKSH" date="1390476989"]Todd: Can you provide more info about your graphics drivers and supported OpenGL version?[/quote]

This is on my notebook. I'm using the radeon kernel driver for my Trinity [Radeon HD 7520G].

For OpenGL I get the following...

OpenGL core profile version string: 3.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 9.2.5

Todd Carnes · wrote on 12 Feb 2014, 14:25

For what it's worth, I loaded Creator onto a virtualbox with WinXP w/Service pack 3 (32 bit), to see if I could re-create the OP's problem, and ended up with an unusable ide.

I turned off the Welcome plugin and the QML plugins and it seems to work ok now. Turning off 3d acceleration in VirtualBox did NOT make things any better.

JKSH · wrote on 12 Feb 2014, 15:08

There are many reports of Qt's OpenGL bits not playing well with VirtualBox,

Digia is tracking graphics issues. Could you please read http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2013-November/014330.html and file a report at https://bugreports.qt-project.org/ ?

Todd Carnes · wrote on 17 Feb 2014, 00:32

I will do that. Thank you for your response. :)

JKSH · wrote on 17 Feb 2014, 11:14

You're welcome. :) Thank you for your report.

Rolias · wrote on 25 Sept 2014, 23:36

As a long overdue follow-up I would like to point out I got this working from advice from Christian Stenger when I reported it as a bug. "I wrote up the work-around.":http://bit.ly/qtvirtbox

astodolski · R Rolias 22 Jan 2014, 20:06

@Rolias said:

Thanks for the answer. I just finished reinstalling (via another method) on Kubuntu and now under Kubuntu the welcome mode works. I updated my post.

If it were OpenGL support in VirtualBox I wouldn't have expected that. I downloaded VMWare (free 30 day trial) just to see if it's any better. Once I'm through testing I'll see if I can add something helpful to the bug report.

VMWARE version 11 (latest) running Win 7 x64 SP1 and Qt 5.4, displays Welcome Mode Load Error.

astodolski · 6 Sept 2016, 15:21

@JKSH said:

Rolias: Try disabling 3d Acceleration on your VirtualBox VM (i.e. switch to software rendering)

Todd: Can you provide more info about your graphics drivers and supported OpenGL version?

Disabling accleration on VMWARE version 11 does nothing to improve.

AVU2 · 9 Jun 2016, 15:27

@astodolski
This thread saved my day : disabling VirtualBox 3D acceleration made Qt 5.7 OpenGL error disappear. Host : iMac OS-X 10.11, Virtualbox 5.1.4. Qt Guest : Ubuntu 14.04.