PrimeOS 4.2 guest fails to fully load on windows host

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I tried running PrimeOS classic guest and it never gets past the PrimeOS x86:/ # command line.
This happens whether loading it in live cd mode or fully installed to a virtual disk. Maybe I'm missing something obvious but shouldn't it boot straight to gui?

Its an android based mobile type os.
https://primeos.in/download/

Using Virtualbox 6.0.4
PrimeOS 4.2 Classic
Windows 10 64bit

gigs of ram and drive were allocated so it wasn't resource limited.

[socratis]

Maybe I'm missing something obvious but shouldn't it boot straight to gui?

Well, that would depend on your settings... Plus, you got to remember it's an unsupported guest.

I downloaded "primeos_mainline_0.4.2.iso" and "primeos_classic_0.4.2.iso". I managed to get them into booting with the GUI by choosing the following options, which I copied from the Android-x86 guest that I have, and which PrimeOS is based on:

• Guest type: Linux 2.6/3.x/4.x (64-bit)
• RAM: 1024 MB
• VRAM: 128 MB, 3D acceleration enabled, VBoxVGA.

Those settings allowed the "primeos_mainline_0.4.2.iso" to boot. Slow, but it booted in the GUI. I couldn't get the "primeos_classic_0.4.2.iso" to boot with the defaults.

The only way I could get that going was to select "Advanced Options" at the boot screen, "Live CD VESA mode - No GPU hardware acceleration" and in the screen options I selected "v"(=1024x768x32) or "w"(=1280x1024x32).

I didn't spend too much time to see if there were other settings that I could choose/experiment. But that should give you a starting point...