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VMWare black screen after installing all updates with Fedora Linux (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I'm trying to play around with Fedora in a VM with VMWare Workstation Player (v17.5.1) but I'm running into a problem I don't know how to solve. I use the Fedora 39 1.5 ISO file which is the most current version that's available for download and after installing it in the VM everything works fine. I setup the install and I can use it, still working after rebooting it. But as soon as I do sudo dnf update or update everything via the Software Center the screen of the VM goes black and I can't use the VM anymore. No matter if I reboot it or not. When I power off the VM I can see the Fedora loading icon for a short period but that's it.

This also happened with NixOS but not with Fedora Server. I guess it must have something to do with the DE as both distros were installed with Gnome but I don't know how to solve it. I already tried reinstalling VMWare to no avail. I will try installing a distro with KDE to maybe rule out one cause.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? I'm running VMWare on Windows 11.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Any reason you need to use VMWare ? https://www.virtualbox.org/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Just be careful if you download this from a corp internet address, which someone did on our guest network. Oracle sent us an an invoice for $5000 and pestered us about it for about a year of us ignoring them. We now block Oracle sites and I try to avoid Oracle products like the plague.

[+] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That was my impression as well but as far as we could tell, only the "free" product was downloaded and their sales folks essentially accused us of lying about using it for corporate use. We referred them to the lawyers. Due to this and Java licencing jumping up dramatically again for a bare handful of actual users we have since ended all of our support agreements and banned use of Oracle products. They are too great a financial threat to the business.

VMWare by Broadcom is going to be.. interesting...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

only the “free” product was downloaded and their sales folks essentially accused us of lying about using it for corporate use

According to Virtualbox site:

This VirtualBox Extension Pack Personal Use and Evaluation License governs your access to and use of the VirtualBox Extension Pack. It does not apply to the VirtualBox base package and/or its source code, which are licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License “GPL”

Extension Packs are also free to download, are you sure a pack wasn't downloaded as well? Oracle salesmen would have no ground otherwise (Virtualbox itself is GPL 2)