Windows 10 on a VM

[Lazydo]

Hello,

I have installed Windows 10 as a guest on a Sabayon Host. I would like to use my guest in full screen view but every time I press CTRL+F I get a full screnn but widows still keeps its original size. I have read on-line that I need to install Guest Additions to the guest in order to get this working.

No problem, I create a clone for testing before updating the original. I mount the iso as a virtual disk and start the clone and check devices to ensure that the iso is mounted and then navigate to the iso. Once there I click on VboxWindowsAdditions-amd64 to install the additions. After about a minute and ~ 12% install the screen goes black and never comes back ( I've let the VM run for 2 hours). so it looks like this didn't work so I stop the VM and totally remove it.

Next I create a new clone as above and mount the iso once again. This time I look in the folder labeled 64Bit. There is only a text file that give the command to extract the drivers. This goes well but now I'm at the point where I don't know what to do next. And and all help would be greatly appreciated.

I thank you for your time.

[Perryg]

Post the guests log file ( as an attachment ). Right click on the guest in the Main Manager then click show log. Save and post as an attachment. Compress if it is too large to post.

[Lazydo]

Which log file are you looking for, the one before the install of the additions or the one after the install?

[Perryg]

The newest one will do.

[Lazydo]

Attached for your viewing pleasure.

[Perryg]

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00:00:03.164707 Console: VM runtime error: fatal=false, errorID=DrvVD_DEKMISSING message="VD: The DEK for this disk is missing"

I would suggest that you remove the disk encryption on the clone until you get this sorted out.

Where exactly did you get you VirtualBox install and what is the exact full name of the install?
Also where did you get the guest additions or did they come with the install?

[Lazydo]

I would suggest that you remove the disk encryption on the clone until you get this sorted out.

How can this be done without a re-install?

Where exactly did you get you VirtualBox install and what is the exact full name of the install?

This is a Sabayon install

xf86-video-virtualbox-5.0.10#4.3.0-sabayon

Also where did you get the guest additions or did they come with the install?

They came with the install

[Perryg]

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xf86-video-virtualbox-5.0.10#4.3.0-sabayon

Unfortunately this is a fork and they would need to help you. Forks change too many things and we can not tell what.

[Lazydo]

OK thank you for your time.

[loukingjr]

FWIW, Sabayon is Gentoo based and there is an official build for Gentoo. You might have better luck if you uninstall theirs and install the official build.

[Perryg]

there is an official build for Gentoo

Where would that be? Do you mean from Gentoo? Then it is still a fork. Not sure how that would help but I guess it might. I would think however the Gentoo folks would balk at supporting it on Sabayon.

[loukingjr]

nevermind…
there is a Gentoo template. Would the All Distributions build work?

[Perryg]

Not sure. Never tried it. From what I understand they put the label in the template especially for the Gentoo folks but the Gentoo folks re-write the code from source and it is way different. Not saying it doesn't work mind you they do a fine job, but they are the only ones that know what it is they change.

[loukingjr]

I'm running Sabayon 15.12 as a guest which seems to work ok with their GAs but never tried Sabayon as a host.

My understanding is Gentoo is my great, great, great grandfather's Linux.

[Lazydo]

My understanding, and I could be understanding this totally wrong, is that Sabayon takes the Gentoo source and compiles the binaries. Sabayon is just compiled Gentoo source.