XLibre segfaults in VirtualBox on Debian bookworm

[probonopd]

I am creating a Debian bookworm based Live ISO which I am running in VirtualBox on FreeBSD.

As soon as I do the following in my Live ISO creation:

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-backports.sources
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian
Suites: bookworm-backports
Components: main
Enabled: yes
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg
EOF

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y -t bookworm-backports 'libdrm*'

# Install xlibre
sudo apt-get install -y extrepo
sudo extrepo enable xlibre
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y xlibre

The following happens when booted in VirtualBox:

This does not happen when I comment out the code above.

[apebl]

This is likely a bug in vmware video driver. Xorg users have reported the same issue:

• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=305770
• https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xf86-video-vmware/-/issues/3

Using the modesetting driver with VMSVGA and 3D acceleration enabled works as a workaround.

[apebl]

I checked the issue again in detail.

1. Mesa 25.2 removed support for XA tracker, which the vmware driver uses.
2. Debian forky uses Mesa 25.2, so it removed libxatracker-dev from the vmware driver build dependencies and repository.
3. I followed the change to compile the driver on forky.

Debian bookworm and trixie still use Mesa < 25.2, so I can restore libxatracker-dev dependency for those releases. For Debian forky and later, we need to use the modesetting driver, update the vmware driver to work without XA tracker, or request Mesa to restore XA support.

[apebl]

I thought it was caused by a missing libxatracker-dev build dependency (for bookworm and trixie), but it's not. The vmware video driver 13.4.0.3 crashes even with libxatracker-dev, while old 13.4.0.1 build works.

[probonopd]

Thanks for reproducing the issue @apebl.
Which package do you think is at fault?

[apebl]

I thought it was caused by a missing libxatracker-dev build dependency (for bookworm and trixie), but it's not. The vmware video driver 13.4.0.3 crashes even with libxatracker-dev, while old 13.4.0.1 build works.

Sorry, my bad. This was just a typo. I put libxatracker-dev [linux-only] when the correct one is libxatracker-dev [linux-any]. A bunch of headaches just to figure this out.

The vmware video driver should work fine now for bookworm and trixie. Forky and later need upstream changes, as mentioned above.