Re: F22 Live KDE on a VM
On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 13:22 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
On 21 April 2015 at 12:57, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I've installed the Beta 3 version of F22 KDE Live in a VirtualBox VM.
> This was a clean install, i.e. get a fresh VM, boot the Live CD image,
> then install to disk by clicking on the button. My host machine is F21
> has plenty of horsepower and an NVidia graphics card under the
> proprietary driver. I also installed the VBox Guest Additions and ran
> "dnf update" in the guest.
>
> After logging in, the resulting Plasma DE is unusable. Panel menus pop
> up but windows don't appear on the desktop; in fact nothing appears
> there except the root background.
>
> Other Fedora installations (F21 Workstation) work correctly in the same
> setup.
>
> Since this is KDE specific I thought I'd ask here before taking it to
> the Test list.
>
The last F22 KDE test I did in VM (KVM) was probably Alpha RC3
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_jam/Test_Results:Fedora_22 (Jam
is based on the KDE spin and uses Plasma). At which time it worked
okay. Either an issue with your VM or a new bug. I could try this
evening with KVM. Do you have virtualisation extensions turned on in
hardware? That bit me after a recent motherboard change.
Further to Ed Greshko's question, was it okay on login after
installing and only failed after reboot following update?
Yes, the hardware is an i7 cpu with all the bells and whistles. As I
replied to Ed, I'm not sure about the answer to your second question. I
do remember the Live session (i.e. first boot) appeared to be OK but I
immediately clicked on the install button so didn't really try it.
poc