Rawhide with kernel-6.2 requires VBox SVGA video mode to boot in VirtualBox

[Ian Laurie]

I've not been able to boot Rawhide in VirtualBox with any 6.2 kernel. 
Last good kernel was kernel-6.1.0-65.fc38.x86_64.  My host is Fedora 37 
all updates applied.

Experimentation reveals that I can get my VMs to boot with a 6.2 kernel 
if I use the old "VBOX SVGA" display setting rather than the "correct" 
"VMSVGA" setting.

The old setting produces a configuration alert with Linux systems 
(although it does work).  This feels like a kernel problem to me rather 
than a VirtualBox problem at this point.

Anyone else seeing this, I can't be the only one?

Ian

[Alain Vigne]

I sympathize

On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 4:51 AM Ian Laurie  wrote:
> I've not been able to boot Rawhide in VirtualBox with any 6.2 kernel.

I am using VirtualBox to test rawhide Workstation  (20230107)
and the system is not displaying the welcome screen (stuck with black
screen).
I am able to get Fedora Workstation starting only in degraded mode, using
TroubleShooting --> basic graphics mode
I am not able to get a console. I don't know how to debug this stuff.
> Last good kernel was kernel-6.1.0-65.fc38.x86_64.  My host is Fedora 37
> all updates applied.
>
> Experimentation reveals that I can get my VMs to boot with a 6.2 kernel
> if I use the old "VBOX SVGA" display setting rather than the "correct"
> "VMSVGA" setting.
>
> The old setting produces a configuration alert with Linux systems
> (although it does work).  This feels like a kernel problem to me rather
> than a VirtualBox problem at this point.
>
> Anyone else seeing this, I can't be the only one?

Am I also the only one ?
> Ian
>
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Regards

[Samuel Sieb]

On 1/7/23 09:04, Alain Vigne wrote:
> I sympathize
>
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 4:51 AM Ian Laurie <[e-mail] 
> > wrote:
>     The old setting produces a configuration alert with Linux systems
>     (although it does work).  This feels like a kernel problem to me rather
>     than a VirtualBox problem at this point.
> Anyone else seeing this, I can't be the only one?
>
> Am I also the only one ?

Probably most people use KVM/qemu.