4.2 has lots of improvements related to win8/3D, so your issue should be hopefully fixed.JoeB77 wrote:Has anyone tried installing guest additions with the new 4.2 release? I had the same black screen issue discussed earlier in this thread when I tried to install guest additions in 4.1.22 (or 4.1.21, I forget). I'm somewhat new to virtualbox and I'm very afraid to try installing guest additions again because it made me have to totally wipe out and reinstall windows last time I tried.
Host: Mac OSX Snow Leopard
Guest: Windows 8 MSDN release from last week
Thank you experts,
Joe
In any way, the black screen issue should not appear if you instal Guest Additions in a VM with disabled 3D acceleration (uncheck the "3D" box on a "Display" page of VM settings GUI),
so I would first install Guest Additions with disabled 3D and then would try to run a VM with 3D enabled to see if it works with 3D, if you still have a problem with 3D enabled, you could power-off the VM and stay with disabled 3D.
..And please attach a VM log file for a VM 3D-enabled session if you still have issues with 3D.