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.

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Did you try switching VT (Send Ctrl+Alt+F3 or other F-keys) or change graphics settings of the VM?

    Did you try to kill Xserver, if any (careful, don’t kill the outside X, but it’s Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, if enabled)?

    Did you try magic sysrq?