Hi guys and gals,
So I am completely stumped by this one. I am currently building virtualized desktop development environments using Vagrant 1.7.2, Virtual Box 4.3.26, and Xubuntu 14.10 64 bit Desktop ISO. I can successfully build, package, and upload my box from the host machine I developed the virtual Xubuntu machine on, and can successfully download it to a Mac Laptop that has no problem booting the environment. However, on a Windows 7 Laptop, it seems to hang at booting. I can manually select to boot from Grub, watch it successfully make the boot call to initrd, and then it goes to a black screen with the white underscore cursor frozen in place.
I have checked all the virtualization settings, tried to turn on and off various BIOS settings or options on the boot line parameters, and installing all kinds of updates like linux-firmware updates, intel graphic driver updates, etc. I even tried creating an entirely fresh guest OS of Xubuntu on the laptop and it boots successfully. It will even create a server based OS, install a desktop environment on said server image, and then boot into the new desktop environment successfully without a hitch.
This really is driving me crazy. Does anyone have any idea what could possibly be the direction to look into next? I even tried to boot with the graphics option as text, and it still freezes at the frozen output screen. Very frustrating!
So I am completely stumped by this one. I am currently building virtualized desktop development environments using Vagrant 1.7.2, Virtual Box 4.3.26, and Xubuntu 14.10 64 bit Desktop ISO. I can successfully build, package, and upload my box from the host machine I developed the virtual Xubuntu machine on, and can successfully download it to a Mac Laptop that has no problem booting the environment. However, on a Windows 7 Laptop, it seems to hang at booting. I can manually select to boot from Grub, watch it successfully make the boot call to initrd, and then it goes to a black screen with the white underscore cursor frozen in place.
I have checked all the virtualization settings, tried to turn on and off various BIOS settings or options on the boot line parameters, and installing all kinds of updates like linux-firmware updates, intel graphic driver updates, etc. I even tried creating an entirely fresh guest OS of Xubuntu on the laptop and it boots successfully. It will even create a server based OS, install a desktop environment on said server image, and then boot into the new desktop environment successfully without a hitch.
This really is driving me crazy. Does anyone have any idea what could possibly be the direction to look into next? I even tried to boot with the graphics option as text, and it still freezes at the frozen output screen. Very frustrating!