EOS in Virtualbox - not booting after update - vmclient change

[bin]

By way of getting to know - and eventually switch to - EOS I have been playing in Virtualbox on Mint Debian. When stuff works I then transfer what I have done to a spare machine.

In every VM I have ever set up - irrespective of OS - I have always set the Graphics Controller as VMSVGA and all has been well.

I haven’t used the VM for a while as all is going well on hardware.

Yesterday I booted the VM, ran pacman -Syu and rebooted. Boot stopped at Reached Target - Graphical Interface.

I recalled seeing that there had been an update to vmclient in EOS. No changes in Debian.

Poking around I found a couple of error messages - end result was that I needed to change the VM to VBoxSVGA and all was well.

Not sure if this will be of any use to anyone but recording it just in case.

[manuel]

Probably it is about package xf86-video-vmware which needs to be downgraded to version 13.4.0-3.
Note that the LTS kernel may fail anyway.

[bin]

Thank you for the quick response. As it is working OK I will leave well alone unless something else pops up. Working fine with LTS kernel.

[manuel]

I uninstalled xf86-video-vmware completely, and here the VM works with both the default and the LTS kernel.

[bin]

Interesting. Removed xf86-video-vmware as suggested and swapped back to VMSVGA - all good.
Thank you.