On 01/12/2011 01:40 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
[...] The problem was I built a VM that started X but only had KDE in the VM and no user accounts yet. KDE starts and runs in the VM but KDE wouldn't allow a root login so there wasn't a way for me to get a user account added without stopping at the login like this.
Uhm, CTRL+Alt+F1 will switch you to the first console so you can login as root. If you're on VMWare, that shortcut becomes CTRL+Alt+Space, release them, then press F1.
