hi there, getting the frozen cursor on a black screen when loading a Kali Linux virtual machine... I've tried everything posted elsewhere here, and ideas?
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here's hoping and much appreciated!
The old Kali-black-screen problem
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The old Kali-black-screen problem
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Re: The old Kali-black-screen problem
I would start by enabling hardware virtualization in the hosts bios and see how it goes.
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Re: The old Kali-black-screen problem
I would also increase graphics RAM to something sensible, as 12MB is IMHO not enough. I'd suggest 48MB.
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Re: The old Kali-black-screen problem
Increasing the video RAM to 48 did it - thanks everyone.
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Re: The old Kali-black-screen problem
Actually, IMHO, we should be petitioning for the devs to change the defaults. 12 MB seems way too low for the default vRAM.
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Re: The old Kali-black-screen problem
I am having this black screen never goes away problem. I have enabled virtualization in my Bios and increased the video memory from 12mb to 48mb, then to 50mb.
The problem refuses to go away.
The problem refuses to go away.
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Re: The old Kali-black-screen problem
@jabbok,
Couple of things to look at.
1) you can try to enable 3D acceleration in the video settings and see if that helps.
2) I am more than a little concerned that this appears to be a pre-installed guest downloaded and not installed by you. This usually is an indication that configuration issues or wrong guest additions are to blame.
I don't see the guest booting at all and that points at something wrong with the installation too.
Couple of things to look at.
1) you can try to enable 3D acceleration in the video settings and see if that helps.
2) I am more than a little concerned that this appears to be a pre-installed guest downloaded and not installed by you. This usually is an indication that configuration issues or wrong guest additions are to blame.
I don't see the guest booting at all and that points at something wrong with the installation too.
Re: The old Kali-black-screen problem
@Perryg,
Thanks for the response. I removed the appliance from Vbox, enabled hardware virtualization from my BIOS, re-imported the appliance (Kali linux) into Vbox and disabled the USB functionality.
Voila! Everything loaded well even with the default video memory of 12mb!
Thanks for the response. I removed the appliance from Vbox, enabled hardware virtualization from my BIOS, re-imported the appliance (Kali linux) into Vbox and disabled the USB functionality.
Voila! Everything loaded well even with the default video memory of 12mb!