Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Oracle VM VirtualBox VM screen goes black after installing GuestAdditions


Just created a new VM on Oracle VM VirtualBox using Windows Server 2012 R2 for OS. The screen size was small and I installed GuestAdditions (unsuccessfully multiple times since the screen went black during installation). The GuestAdditions.iso itself is located in C:\Program Files\oracle\VirtualBox and that is the correct version for the VirtualBox version.

Anyway after installation and when the screen went black, I powered off the VM and unchecked the "Enable 3D Acceleration" in Display tab of the Oracle VM settings for this VM and started and it worked fine.

Hope this helps!

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