W10 guest on F37, blank screen

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DenisZ
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W10 guest on F37, blank screen

Post by DenisZ »

After update of Fedora 36 to Fedora 37, VirtualBox host has been updated to 7.0.4, and now both of VM Win8.1 and W10 display black screen when starting. I suspect it could be VirtualBox Guest Additions drivers being still older after update.
Anyone knows how to uninstall Guest Additions from CMD. I've done rescue mode and tried Start-up in Safe mode but no luck so far.
From CMD I went to

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 c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox Guest Additions\
and tried to run

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uninst.exe
, but it doesn't work as it is GUI program.
I've found some tip to do

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pnputil.exe -i -a *.inf
, but it didn't solve the problem, it actually, as it seems, install drivers from that folder, rather than remove it
Any other clues?
scottgus1
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Primary OS: MS Windows 10
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Re: W10 guest on F37, blank screen

Post by scottgus1 »

Was this problem solved by applying fth0's instructions, as you reported here? viewtopic.php?f=2&t=107519&p=528743#p528743
DenisZ
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Re: W10 guest on F37, blank screen

Post by DenisZ »

scottgus1 wrote:Was this problem solved by applying fth0's instructions, as you reported here? viewtopic.php?f=2&t=107519&p=528743#p528743
Yes I've solved the issue with disabling SVGA via comand:

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VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" "VBoxInternal/Devices/vga/0/Config/VMSVGA10" "0"
Then I was able to:
  • - boot into windows,
    - remove old Guest Additions,
    - download new Guest Additions v 7.0.4,
    - install new Guest Additions
    - reboot, and enable SVGA again
and all is working like it should
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