[OpenIndiana-discuss] Openindiana boot kvm lmde4

[Tony Brian Albers]

Sorry, I meant Display Spice, not Channel Spice

/tony

Tony Brian Albers wrote:
> Good morning,
> 
> I'm not sure you can get a decent MATE Desktop running when in
> single-user mode. Quite a lot of stuff in modern(!) desktops rely on
> different sort of internal network-based services, and many of those are
> not started in single-user mode.
> 
> What you could do is something like(in sigle user mode):
> 
> svcadm disable lightdm  (because sometimes lightdm can actually crash so
> hard that the host reboots)
> 
> And then try booting into multi-user. If this works, you should have a
> chance to investigate and maybe figure out what's going on.
> 
> You might also want to try changing the virtual display protocol in
> libvirt (virtual machine properties -> channel spice) to VNC.
> 
> 
> /tony
> 
> Joel Lapointe wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I installed OpenIndiana 20.05.04 in Quemu/KVM Gui (Virtual Machine
>> Manager libvirt).
>>
>> It has a boot loop if I use default boot (1. Multiuser...). So I tried
>> 2. Single User. It gave me this :
>>
>>       " Enter user name for system maintenance (control-d to bypass):"
>>
>> So I entered with root ans my root password. It gave me a terminal "#".
>>
>> So I tried "startx" to see if it gives me the mate desktop. It doesn't,
>> it gave a minimal "x" gui with 2 terminal windows.
>>
>> Here is my question : How is it possible to start mate desktop with the
>> system maintenance terminal?
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Joel Lapointe
>>
>>
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