

The osinfo-db is used by the likes of GNOME Boxes and Virt-Manager. One week prior to release, that change enabled 3D acceleration by default when installing recent Debian/Ubuntu desktop operating systems from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS hosts.


It was just back on 14 April that the Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish" osinfo-db package was updated where it added the Ubuntu 22.04 entries and also decided to enable (experimental) 3D acceleration for recent Debian and Ubuntu desktop installs. Those with Ubuntu 22.04 hosts and launching Ubuntu 22.04 desktop VMs will find 3D acceleration disabled by default. In addition to Ubuntu 22.04 switching back NVIDIA to using X11 by default rather than Wayland as a launch-day change, separately, there was another rather notable last minute change affecting 3D support for virtual machines.
