Virtualbox Black Screen On Boot

Sometimes you boot up a VM in Skytap and, after the VMware logo and the Windows logo display, the screen goes black.

Hello, I've installed Oracle VM VirtualBox and downloaded Cloudera quickstart 5.8.0-0. I'm still not able to lauch the VM desktop. I'm stuck at the blackscreen after the loading bar is down (see image below) I've enable virtualization in BIOS, and tried different set up (Windows and Red Hat) but. After that, my screen gets black from the top to the bottom and nothing happens. Flash Qubes R4.0.1 or 4.0.2-rc1; Boot the stick using UEFI boot; Wait a bit until some text appears; After that, the screen turns black. The last text is Xen is relinquishing VGA console. Expected behavior The installer should start and everything. After starting it and choosing to boot off a win 10 ISO, a 'VirtualBox' screen came up. Then it switches to a black screen with a dash line on the top-left and freezes. The only way to quit it after that is to kill it through task manager.

This article helps you replace an incorrect display driver with the VMware 3D SVGA driver, which corrects most display problems.

Notes

This KB article applies to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and later. For help fixing a Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 VM, see Why is the screen black after my Windows 10 VM boots?.
If you see a blank screen for a non-Windows VM, make sure you’re using a supported operating system.

Virtualbox Black Screen On Boot Windows 7

To replace the display driver on a VM

Do not start the VM (if it’s already started, shut down the VM).
Click the VM thumbnail to open the Secure Remote Access (SRA) browser client.
In the browser client toolbar, click to turn on the virtual keyboard, and then click to start the VM.
At the VMware startup screen, repeatedly press F8 on the virtual keyboard until the Advanced Boot Options screen displays.
Use the arrow keys to select Safe Mode, and then press Enter to restart the VM in safe mode.
Note that mouse movement in Safe Mode may be erratic.
Sign in to the VM using the stored credentials for the VM (see Viewing saved VM credentials).
From the Windows Control Panel, open the Device Manager.
Under Display Adapters, uninstall the VMware display driver.
Restart the VM. After the VM restarts, Windows should automatically update the drivers.

I'm experiencing the same behaviour.
Host is GUN/Linux 3.5.0-17-generic, x86_64 running VirtualBox 4.1.18_Ubuntu.
The guest is archlinux-2014.03.01-dual.iso.

After starting the VM, the 'Arch Linux' boot menu appears with the expected options.
Of these options, the 'Run Memtest86+ (RAM test)' and 'Hardware Information (HDT)' items
seem to function correctly.

White Screen

However selecting 'Boot Arch Linux (x86_64)' simply blanks the screen and the VM is
no longer responsive to keyboard.

My VirtualBox runs other guests (WIN7) ok, and I've booted the same iso (from a USB drive)
on another (real) PC, so I think the iso file is fine.

The last part of the VirtualBox log before I power off the VM is;

00:00:03.959 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from Floppy 0 failed
00:00:03.959 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from Hard Disk 0 failed
00:00:03.960 Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from CD-ROM...
00:00:04.019 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=00007f9430000000 w=640 h=480 bpp=24 cbLine=0x780, flags=0x1
00:00:09.955 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=0000000000000000 w=720 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0, flags=0x1
00:00:14.261 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'SUSPENDING'.

Virtualbox Black Screen On Boot Mac

Does anyone have any ideas about what could be going wrong please ?