The old Kali-black-screen problem

[Selkirk Garrow]

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?
log attached.
here's hoping and much appreciated!

[Perryg]

I would start by enabling hardware virtualization in the hosts bios and see how it goes.

[mpack]

I would also increase graphics RAM to something sensible, as 12MB is IMHO not enough. I'd suggest 48MB.

[Selkirk Garrow]

Increasing the video RAM to 48 did it - thanks everyone.

[socratis]

Actually, IMHO, we should be petitioning for the devs to change the defaults. 12 MB seems way too low for the default vRAM.

[jabbok]

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.

[Perryg]

@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.

[jabbok]

@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!