On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 14:14:08 -0500 [email protected] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 07:14:11PM +0100, Michael Siemmeister wrote: > > Last week I tried to install Debian in a virtual-box. Currently I use > > Debian 8.7 for running the virtual-box program. I managed to install > > Debian stable without any problems. Then I cloned the virtual-box and > > tried an upgrade to Debian-testing. I think, it worked. After a while > > I shut down the virtual-machine. When trying to reboot, it did not > > start properly. I just got some messages like 'Created slice User > > Slice of Debian-gdm.', 'Starting User Manager ofr UID 117.', and > > finally 'Started Daily apt activities.'. Then the virtual display just > > starts blinking. Nothing else happens. After three minutes or so the > > display freezes. > > > > Then I thought, okay, maybe the virtualbox program has got a bug. So, > > I downloaded the Debian-Testing-DVD-1 via jigdo-lite and copied it to > > a USB drive. I tried to install Debian-Testing on an old laptop, a > > Toshiba Satellite from 2009. Unfortunately I don' remember the exact > > model number. I had already installed Debian Stable without any > > problems on that laptop some months ago. The Debian-Testing installer > > worked fine and finally, it asked me to reboot the PC. After rebooting > > similar problems occured. There was a message about the graphics card > > and after 30 seconds the display started blinking. Nothing else > > happened. > > > > As I have written above these errors only occured with Debian-Testing. > > Debian-Stable worked fine on Virtualbox and the Toshiba laptop. So, I > > don't think there are some hardware problems. > > If you are running virtualbox on jessie, that would be version 4.3.36. > I do find a lot of problems reported with gnome 3 and virtual box 4.x. > > I wonder if virtualbox 5.1.8 in jessie-backports would solve the problem. > > I also wonder if having virtualbox 4.x as host with 5.x guest utilities > installed could cause problems (I suspect the guest utilities are > automatically installed and for stretch they would be version 5.x, > not 4.x). > > After all gnome3 mandates 3D accaleration, and having drivers that don't > match the hardware (virtualbox in this case) could be a problem. > > -- > Len Sorensen > > Thanks for your answer, Len!
I am sorry for having caused confusion. Actually, I only wanted to report a bug for the problems encountered during the installation on the Toshiba laptop. I know that virtualbox won't be in Debian Stretch, so therefore I don't want to report this bug. As you can read in the mailing-list entries I tried it with the latest virtualbox version without success. Unfortunately, I used Oracle's repository, not the one in jessie-backports. Actually, I don't know whether or not I am going to try that. I think I will move to qemu since it is completely open source. -Michael
