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Gvim redraw issues with Virtual Box and Windows 7 host

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Gvim 7.4 on a Linux guest inside VirtualBox has serious redraw issues: often when I scroll up/down, the shown text gets corrupted (e.g., empty or with some "holes"). And I have to resize/rescroll to clean the screen. I've never experienced a similar problem either with Gvim or with Virtualbox, but it makes gvim almost unusable.

Some further information:

  • Virtualbox host distribution: Windows 7 64 bit
  • Virtualbox version: 4.3.12 with guest additions
  • Virtualbox guest distribution: Linux Mint 17 Qiana 64-bit Cinnamon
  • Gvim package: vim-gtk (but it happens using vim-gnome too)

Any idea how to solve this issue ?