VirtualBox

Opened 15 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#6444 closed defect (obsolete)

Display is blank or garbled when guest is in text mode

Reported by: Markus Laker Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 3.1.6
Keywords: text mode display garbled scrambled corrupt Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: other

Description (last modified by Frank Mehnert)

My host and guest are both 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10. When the guest boots, it does so in text mode; the guest display is usually a black rectangle with a light grey surround, making it impossible to (for example) use the Grub menu.

If, on a booted system, I use RightCtrl+F1 to move to a text-mode virtual console, the display is garbled; see the attached interactive.png. At the very least (as shown here), the line length seems to be wrong and the background colour, which should be black, is also wrong. Sometimes, characters I type don't appear at all. This makes it difficult or impossible to (for example) rescue a system on which X won't start.

I'll also attach my VirtualBox log.

Attachments (2)

Main-2010-03-27-17-25-09.log (55.8 KB ) - added by Markus Laker 15 years ago.
VirtualBox log
interactive.png (55.4 KB ) - added by Markus Laker 15 years ago.
PNG showing garbled display when guest is in text mode

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Change History (3)

by Markus Laker, 15 years ago

by Markus Laker, 15 years ago

Attachment: interactive.png added

PNG showing garbled display when guest is in text mode

comment:1 by Frank Mehnert, 11 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Resolution: obsolete
Status: newclosed
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