David, On Friday 13 March 2009, David Baron wrote: > On a Debian Sid/KDE4.2-experimental system, if vbox does not give me some > explicit error and tries to start a VM, I get a black screen and no more. I > can escape, either within the desktop or go to a console and kill it. In > any event vbox did not run the VM correctly.
I assume you tried to start a VM from the GUI? What happens if you start the VM with VirtualBox -startvm VM_NAME ? And what happens if you start the VM with VirtualBox -startvm VM_NAME -rmode image ? > I tried this with (duely updated) duely updated vm, CD-image for reactos > (usely will not work) and a vboxmanager-created vmdk of win98 partition > which should. SInce I can get stuck, I did not try any of the others I had. > > Even worse, after aborting the vbox application, I tried to read a document > using Okular (PDF reader) and the same thing happened! > > Once escaped, the window has whole or partial pinkish boarders. I have to > restart X. Sounds like a problem with either your X server or your video driver. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/
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