Leap 16 beta in VB

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Hi, I thought I would have look at Leap 16 in VirtualBox. I downloaded the iso and the installation in VB went fine without any issues and after it was finish it asked me to reboot which I did and selected boot from HD. A blank (black) screen then showed up but nothing more happened. Deleted the virtual machine and tried once more with same result (as expected). I assume I am doing something wrong so any tip is appreciated. If it is not possible for now… all fine, I was just curious, I have no plans to replace my TW which works perfect.

Thanks

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Check that “Display” is set to “VBoxSVGA” and ignore the warning “Invalid settings detected”. I have Video Memory set at 64 MB if that matters.

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I have Leap 16 installed in a KVM virtual machine. It won’t boot unless I choose an older kernel.

Hmm, I just booted an older kernel. It turns out there’s a new kernel available (kernel-default-6.12.0-160000.16.1). I’m updating now. I hope that will solve the problem.

You can perhaps boot the installer, and check which kernel it is using.

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Solved, turned out to be the wrong boot order in VB machine settings. I thought selecting Boot from hard drive in the GRUB menu was enough, it wasn’t.

An other topic, but does Leap not come with a desktop installed?, I do get the login prompt, but no desktop or GUI. I suspect this is about my limited knowledge :roll_eyes:.

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sudo zypper install patterns-kde-kde solved it :slightly_smiling_face:

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Probably didn’t disable / remove the bootable ISO (install) entry in the Storage option of VBox. (common oversight).

Also, the DE choices are shown during install … unless there’s now a bug with Agama DE options

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