Yep, we got the same issue, not sure what wayland is doing, but probably this is the issue (quoting upstream)
fun: Wayland crashes if you open and close a laptop lid too fast. This is apparently not a bug but a design error in the protocol. And it has been causing me endless fun over the past week. https://phabricator.freedesktop.org/T7722 And likely to play havoc with VirtualBox dynamic resizing: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788908 ** Changed in: virtualbox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Changed in: virtualbox (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #788908 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788908 ** Also affects: wayland (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: wayland (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: wayland (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Critical -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to wayland in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1724810 Title: 17.10/wayland causing flashes in virtualbox To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wayland/+bug/1724810/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

