germf.blogg.se - Macos virtualbox black screen

Display: 128MB, VMSVGA, 3D Acceleration is NOT enabled.

System: 2 vCPUs, 5GB RAM, Boot: Optical + HD, PAE/NX enabled.

In case it helps, here's some of my other VM configuration items:

After reboot, I could login to the graphical environment. This means you have a working system, and you can commit to repairing the broken state properly. Start your machine, and you should be able to reach your desktop without any black screen.

sudo apt install -y dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic linux-headers-$(uname -r) Power down the virtual machine, open its settings, and then untick the right box.

Press Ctrl + Alt + F2, to switch to tty2 console.

Note that I had not manually installed any Guest Additions myself. Rebooting didn't help.Īfter logging in to the black screen, I checked the VM runtime settings, I could see that an older Virtualbox Guest Additions had been installed.

If your Mac appears to be stuck on a blank screen, follow these steps. After logging in, I just see a black screen. A blank screen (black, gray, or blue) should appear once or more during startup. After rebooting, I was prompted with the GUI login. I then performed an apt update / apt upgrade. In both cases, I found that the initial installation worked fine. The virtual machine is started, but even after about 20 minutes, the virtual machine only has the black screen that it started with. Your title says Virtualbox, but your message says VMware.Īnyway, I had a similar issue on Virtualbox 6.1, with both 2020.3 Kali installations. All is well till the populatebootableinstallervirtualdisk step.