Slackware 12.2 Hangs in VBox VM

AstroTux · 12-31-2009, 09:54 PM

Hi,

When running KDE 3.5, and I start a terminal session from X, it just hangs the VM.

Is this a known incompatibility?

I'm running the latest version of Virtual Box on Windows 7 Pro x64.

The real system has plenty of RAM - 4Gb - and the VM has 1 Gb.

Best regards,
AstroTux.

~sHyLoCk~ · 12-31-2009, 11:28 PM

Check the X log.

Woodsman · 01-01-2010, 12:17 PM

I have a 12.2 VM, although my host is 12.2 and not Windows 7. As Shylock suggested, check the Xorg logs.

grep '(EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log && grep '(WW)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Second you should install the VB Guest Additions drivers, which includes a special video driver for VB machines. Otherwise your 12.2 VM needs to use the vesa driver. If you copied the xorg.conf from a physical machine, then that xorg.conf might be configured to use a video driver not supported by the VB structure.

glorsplitz · 01-01-2010, 11:35 PM

after getting out of xfce4 my slack12.2 vm would lock up until i unchecked "VT-x/AMD-V" in vbox settings for the vm