Black Screen when powering up Windows vm (Blue)

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Tavolo
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Black Screen when powering up Windows vm (Blue)

Post by Tavolo »

Hi!
I have downloaded "Blue" vm, and i have imported it in VirtualBox
But when I start this vm, it gives me a black screen

Can anyone help me?

Name: Blue
SO: Windows Vista (64-biy)
Memory: 2048 MB
Processors: 2
Start Order: Floppy, Optical, HHD
Video memory: 30 MB
Graphic Card: VBoxSVGA
scottgus1
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Re: Black Screen when powering up Windows vm (Blue)

Post by scottgus1 »

Start the VM from full normal shutdown, not save-state. Run until you see the problem happen, then shut down the VM from within the VM's OS if possible. If not possible, close the Virtualbox window for the VM with the Power Off option set.

Right-click the VM in the main Virtualbox window's VM list, choose Show in Explorer/Finder/File Manager. In the "Logs" subfolder, zip the VM's "vbox.log", and post the zip file, using the forum's Upload Attachment tab. (If you get an error that the the "board attachment quota has been reached", copy the entire text of the log and paste on the forum between

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Tavolo
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Re: Black Screen when powering up Windows vm (Blue)

Post by Tavolo »

scottgus1 wrote:Start the VM from full normal shutdown, not save-state. Run until you see the problem happen, then shut down the VM from within the VM's OS if possible. If not possible, close the Virtualbox window for the VM with the Power Off option set.

Right-click the VM in the main Virtualbox window's VM list, choose Show in Explorer/Finder/File Manager. In the "Logs" subfolder, zip the VM's "vbox.log", and post the zip file, using the forum's Upload Attachment tab. (If you get an error that the the "board attachment quota has been reached", copy the entire text of the log and paste on the forum between

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 tags.)[/quote]

I can't upload the zip, but I also can't post the log by copying the text, so I'm uploading it to mediafire:

[url=https://www.mediafire.com/file/f0mrp5tew4w3bt7/VBox.7z/file]mediafire.extension/file/f0mrp5tew4w3bt7/VBox.7z/file[/url]

replace "extension" with "com" (I can't upload urls)
Last edited by mpack on 6. Nov 2022, 11:38, edited 2 times in total.
Reason: De-obfuscate URL.
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Re: Black Screen when powering up Windows vm (Blue)

Post by mpack »

I don't immediately see a problem, but I see you are still on 7.0.0. I would definitely recommend trying 7.0.2.

Btw, I have no idea what "Blue VM" means. Apparantly you downloaded Vista from somewhere: note that if this isn't a genuine Microsoft download then we have no reason to expect that it should work.
Tavolo
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Re: Black Screen when powering up Windows vm (Blue)

Post by Tavolo »

mpack wrote:I don't immediately see a problem, but I see you are still on 7.0.0. I would definitely recommend trying 7.0.2.

Btw, I have no idea what "Blue VM" means. Apparantly you downloaded Vista from somewhere: note that if this isn't a genuine Microsoft download then we have no reason to expect that it should work.
The problem was the version of VirtualBox, now it works, thanks
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