FS#61184 - [virtualbox] EFI with VMSVGA or VBoxSVGA results in black screen
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Opened by nl6720 (nl6720) - Thursday, 27 December 2018, 08:46 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Wednesday, 17 April 2019, 13:06 GMT
Opened by nl6720 (nl6720) - Thursday, 27 December 2018, 08:46 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Wednesday, 17 April 2019, 13:06 GMT
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Description:
When Graphics Controller is set to "VMSVGA", the VM boots with a black screen until Linux loads the graphics driver. When Graphics Controller is set to "VBoxSVGA", the VM boots with a black screen and stays that way. Additional info: * package version(s) * config and/or log files etc. virtualbox 6.0.0-1 Steps to reproduce: Create a VM, enable EFI, set "Graphics Controller" to "VMSVGA" (the default) or "VBoxSVGA" try to boot ArchISO. |
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Closed by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Wednesday, 17 April 2019, 13:06 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Wednesday, 17 April 2019, 13:06 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
The only related upstream issue I could find is https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18237 , but it's not very useful.
Even Windows Isos have the same Problem when using archlinux as Host.
But Windows stays black on both.
This only happens when using efi inside the guest. When trying the same VM on a Windows Host with same virtualbox version, everything works. Didn't tryed antoher linux Distribution yet, sorry
Nothing changed for VBoxSVGA, the VM still boots to a black screen.
In this ticket https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18282 they say: as of today there's no graphics driver in the EFI firmware which handles VMSVGA or VBoxSVGA.