F22 Live KDE on a VM

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 13:22 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 21 April 2015 at 12:57, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at 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