Apr 04, 2019 If VirtualBox displays a black screen & is not booting the guest OS or not opening the installation window, you need to disable Hyper-V and 3D Acceleration. We have experienced a 'black screen of death' after booting a CentOS virtual machine running on an Oracle VirtualBox. The screen is completely black, there is no mouse pointer. This seems to be related to upgrading the system, but we are not sure. We've discovered that reinstalling guest additions and rebooting somehow fixes the problem. See if it is a display problem by getting into a console - it takes a few seconds for the console to appear. Right-ctrl+insert+f3 (f2 or f4) if it give you a login prompt then a library or symbolic link is missing. I had a missing symbolic link on one of my virtual machines that left a black screen on reboot.

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Component:	other	Version:	VirtualBox 2.0.2
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Guest type:	other	Host type:	Linux

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Jimk2048 wrote:The virtualbox blackscreen problem on Windows 10 can also be caused by enabling HyperV. Careful - the above discussion is a year old. 5.1.2 or 5.2.12 would both simply refuse to run the VM if Hyper-v was enabled. How to Install Kali Linux - Please Subscribe Channel Like, Share and Comment Visit: www.geekyshows.com.

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