On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
That's what I do on a physical Gentoo box and it works fine. (Either Alt-Ctrl-F1 or Alt-F1) This VM, running in Virtualbox-4.0.0 on Win 7 didn't work. A more or less identical Gentoo VM running on a Gentoo server (yes, Gentoo within Gentoo) didn't switch to the VM's console but switched to the server's console. Assuming I was actually capturing keyboard strokes by the VM that doesn't make sense to me but possible things like Alt & Alt-Ctrl sequences are handled differently by Linux. Dunno.. Anyway, the gentoo=nox solution worked great for my needs. Thanks, Mark
