Moving to Fedora 31 on Virtual Box 6.1
Last week I got a new Thinkpad T490s, and to celebrate I grabbed the latest Windows 10 Pro updates, installed Virtual Box 6.1, and set up a new Fedora 31 VM.
Everything was pretty smooth right out of the box but for two problems:
1. guest OS in Seamless mode slides UNDER Window's taskbar.
2. Chrome 79.0.3945.117 (Official Build) (64-bit) performance was insanely sluggish and unusable inside the VM.
Still working on a fix for the first one, other than to hide the Windows taskbar when working on a single screen, and to assign my VM's xfce4-panel to run on a different pimary monitor by default than Windows' primary monitor (so they don't overlap).
But for the second issue, I found this solution - forcing my VM's Chrome to use hardware acceleration, by turning on a setting under chrome://flags:
And like that, voom. Chrome is responsive and useable again!
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