Debian XFCE Guest - not booting

[DBench712309]

Debian guest hangs with a flickering cursor (after GRUB).
Latest VB installed.
Virtualisation enabled in the BIOS
Hyper-V not installed
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off run from elevated shell to be sure.

I have assigned 2 CPU's, 2GB RAM and 32MB of VRAM

I have a GTX 7050.

Logs and spec attached.

Not sure what else to try as I've exhausted the suggestions in the forums.

[scottgus1]

The guest boots and gets a Guest Additions startup report:

00:00:05.493195 VMMDev: Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from Hard Disk...
.....
00:00:17.758971 VMMDev: Guest Additions information report: Version 5.2.0 r68940 '5.2.0'

No issues with Hyper-V:

00:00:02.144579 HM: HMR3Init: VT-x w/ nested paging and unrestricted guest execution hw support

Nothing egregious appears to me in the log.

Is this a new guest, or has it ever worked before? Did anything change on the host PC?

If it's an old, previously-working guest, and nothing has been changed or updated on the host, consider that the guest OS may have just developed a problem. Same thing happens on real PCs too, especially the commodity PCs that don't have the error-checking that servers have.

[DBench712309]

Thanks for replying.

It's a brand new guest. I've re-created it 3 times (just to make sure).

If it helps, the log files are here when it hangs

00:00:15.462014 Display::i_handleDisplayResize: uScreenId=0 pvVRAM=0000000000000000 w=800 h=600 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0 flags=0x2 origin=0,0
00:00:15.466983 Display::i_handleDisplayResize: uScreenId=0 pvVRAM=0000000009b80000 w=800 h=600 bpp=32 cbLine=0xC80 flags=0x1 origin=0,0
00:00:15.467882 GUI: UIMachineLogic: Guest-screen count changed
00:00:19.440686 Display::i_handleDisplayResize: uScreenId=0 pvVRAM=0000000000000000 w=800 h=600 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0 flags=0x2 origin=0,0
00:00:19.443051 Display::i_handleDisplayResize: uScreenId=0 pvVRAM=0000000009b80000 w=800 h=600 bpp=32 cbLine=0xC80 flags=0x1 origin=0,0
00:00:19.443800 GUI: UIMachineLogic: Guest-screen count changed
00:00:20.881295 Display::i_handleDisplayResize: uScreenId=0 pvVRAM=0000000000000000 w=800 h=600 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0 flags=0x2 origin=0,0
00:00:20.887485 Display::i_handleDisplayResize: uScreenId=0 pvVRAM=0000000009b80000 w=800 h=600 bpp=32 cbLine=0xC80 flags=0x1 origin=0,0
00:00:20.888466 GUI: UIMachineLogic: Guest-screen count changed
00:00:21.788990 Display::i_handleDisplayResize: uScreenId=0 pvVRAM=0000000000000000 w=800 h=600 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0 flags=0x2 origin=0,0
00:00:21.791740 Display::i_handleDisplayResize: uScreenId=0 pvVRAM=0000000009b80000 w=800 h=600 bpp=32 cbLine=0xC80 flags=0x1 origin=0,0
00:00:21.792575 GUI: UIMachineLogic: Guest-screen count changed
00:00:22.912871 Display::i_handleDisplayResize: uScreenId=0 pvVRAM=0000000000000000 w=800 h=600 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0 flags=0x2 origin=0,0
00:00:22.915323 Display::i_handleDisplayResize: uScreenId=0 pvVRAM=0000000009b80000 w=800 h=600 bpp=32 cbLine=0xC80 flags=0x1 origin=0,0
00:00:22.916179 GUI: UIMachineLogic: Guest-screen count changed

[DBench712309]

How very very odd.

1st machine I installed using the XFCE Live ISO which is about 2GB (had the issue)
2nd machine I installed using the full Debian ISO (4GB) selecting XFCE, and it works.

Thanks for looking into it.

[scottgus1]

Intriguing. Maybe the failing DVD left something essential out?

[DBench712309]

I think it's the bare minimum for an install.
Never had any problems with it before but at least I've found out the issue.