I installed Version 5.4.3 of kmail on fedora 25 in a virtualbox image. I can get my email I can see it all in a list but if I click on a particular email the preview pane is just solid black. Also happens if I actually open up the email. If I click on reply or forward I can see the email just fine. Any ideas what may be causing this issue?

Thanks!

EDIT: image added
https://flic.kr/p/TzP4iN

Do you have 3D support enabled in your virtual machine? I wonder if it's not a quirk with the message viewer, which uses a modified version of Chromium's rendering engine.

3d is not enabled. I have not been able to get it to work. 2d hardware acceleration works fine. This virtual machine is in our datacenter across town on an hp server so not the best platform for 3d. I have evolution running but like some of the features in kde