Black screen after hosts system recovery
Posted: 21. Oct 2014, 16:37
Hi All,
I have been using VirualBox for a while now and works nicely for what I need from it. But currently I am getting only a black screen when starting a VM and this prevents me from doing anything.
I am using a Windows 8 host system and I had some issues with my PC so I had to do a Recovery. I took the time to backup everything and made exports of my VMs so that I wouldnt lose anything. I did a recovery of windows 8 and all went normal there, it did its thing, it uninstalled everything as it should and gave me back a clean pc with all of my files still intact.
So in installed virualbox again and it already had my machines ready to open. So I started one of them to see if all is fine there but all I see is black. It starts up the machine but the screen remains black. I tried it on the other VMs and all the same results. I tried to add the backup that I made before I did the recovery, but that too only gives me a black screen.
Could you guys please help me out and give me some advice so that I can use my VMs again.
If I check the about information on Virtual Box it says that it is version 4.2.4. I Checked for updates and none are available.
The version that I had before I did my PC recovery might not have been the latest version, would that be an issue?
Hope to hear something soon.
Kind Regards,
Tim
I have been using VirualBox for a while now and works nicely for what I need from it. But currently I am getting only a black screen when starting a VM and this prevents me from doing anything.
I am using a Windows 8 host system and I had some issues with my PC so I had to do a Recovery. I took the time to backup everything and made exports of my VMs so that I wouldnt lose anything. I did a recovery of windows 8 and all went normal there, it did its thing, it uninstalled everything as it should and gave me back a clean pc with all of my files still intact.
So in installed virualbox again and it already had my machines ready to open. So I started one of them to see if all is fine there but all I see is black. It starts up the machine but the screen remains black. I tried it on the other VMs and all the same results. I tried to add the backup that I made before I did the recovery, but that too only gives me a black screen.
Could you guys please help me out and give me some advice so that I can use my VMs again.
If I check the about information on Virtual Box it says that it is version 4.2.4. I Checked for updates and none are available.
The version that I had before I did my PC recovery might not have been the latest version, would that be an issue?
Hope to hear something soon.
Kind Regards,
Tim