Kali Linux booted but stuck on cursor (login) with the black screen. What should I do? I have already reinstalled Virtual Box & Kali Linux.
4 Answers
In my case the Version value in the machine's General/Basic settings was Ubuntu (32 bit)
where my image was 64 bit. I changed it to Ubuntu (64 bit)
and the problem went away.
At the top of your screen click view then select switch to scaled view. I had the same problem and this fixed it. For some reason Kali doesn't recognize the display. Same thing happened when I installed scientific linux.
You might have tried to run 64-bit Kali image as a 32 bit OS. I ran into similar scenario with image from https://www.osboxes.org/kali-linux/. By default virtualBox selects 32-bit OS which is why it didn't work for me in the first place. I had to delete the VM and create a new VM by selecting 64 bit OS.
NOTE: Editing the VM version did not work for me.
Found a working solution HERE.
Quoting:
Turning off Hyper-V from programs and features wasn’t enough. The below command worked as many others have used as well. Virtualization security in msinfo32 needs to be disabled and this is the only way I got it to work.
Enter this command: bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
Enter this command: shutdown -s -t 2
root
entertoor
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