On Friday 13 March 2009 18:24:23 Frank Mehnert wrote: > 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 Neither VM started or produced an error > > ? And what happens if you start the VM with > > VirtualBox -startvm VM_NAME -rmode image The vmdk did not start or produce error The reacos image started, produced the error > > ? > > > 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. Nothing else does this.
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