Virtual Box 4.3.30 Black Screen

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Taylor Russell
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Virtual Box 4.3.30 Black Screen

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I am having an issue loading a .vhd. The VM runs the loading screen for Windows 10 for 10-15 seconds and then goes black. Has anyone else experienced this/does someone know something i might be able to do to fix it.

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Taylor Russell
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Re: Virtual Box 4.3.30 Black Screen

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I am also getting this Error
ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) aIID={8ab7c520-2442-4b66-8d74-4ff1e195d2b6} aComponent={Console} aText={The object is not ready}, preserve=false

Not sure what exactly is means though
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Re: Virtual Box 4.3.30 Black Screen

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Attach the vbox.log (compressed) for the guest.
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Re: Virtual Box 4.3.30 Black Screen

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These files are also from after an upgrade to Virtual Box 5.0.0
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(19.82 KiB) Downloaded 2 times
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Re: Virtual Box 4.3.30 Black Screen

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I see that you cross posted this to two other topics. This is against the forum rules since it causes unnecessary duplication of effort, e.g. like the reply I gave to one of the other posts (grr). The other topics have now been deleted.
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Re: Virtual Box 4.3.30 Black Screen

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Im sorry about that, i just was not sure which location would be the best for it.
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Re: Virtual Box 4.3.30 Black Screen

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Try disabling 3D acceleration. One thing, you have 8GB RAM assigned to the guest with only 11GB available. You should probably reduce that to no more than 4GB.
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Re: Virtual Box 4.3.30 Black Screen

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That did get it running! It is only running in a smaller screen. Even when making in full screen. Do you know how i might be able to make the screen larger?
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Re: Virtual Box 4.3.30 Black Screen

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Yes, install the guest additions.
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Re: Virtual Box 4.3.30 Black Screen

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Where are those files located?
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Re: Virtual Box 4.3.30 Black Screen

Post by loukingjr »

With your guest open, click the Devices menu> insert guest additions CD Image. It will mount in your guest. You really need to do some research on your own or at least look at the user manual.
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