Google-maps – Google maps 3D not working on VirtualBox

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Why maps.google.com's 3D feature while running Chrome (latest) on Ubuntu 18 in a virtual environment (VirtualBox) with Windows 10 host is not enabled?

Virtual Machine's settings:

Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager | Settings | System:

Paravirtualization Interface: KVM
Hardware Virtualization: Enable Vt-x/AMD-V (checked)
                         Enable Nested Paging (checked)

The setting, 'Use hardware acceleration' is enabled in Chrome:

Settings | Advanced
Use hardware acceleration when available (checked)

Best Answer

On VB 6.0.14 I had similar settings as you and needed to use

  • VMSVGA
  • disable (uncheck) Display > Acceleration: activate 3d acceleration

to get 3d Google maps on Fedora 30 Gnome guest in Chrome. Unfortunately I lost dual display support with this change, what made me return to VBoxSVGA without 3D Support (couldn't make it work).

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