Kali Linux Black Screen – Contents of cdrom Install The Guest Additions Now, if you list out the contents of the ‘ /media/cdrom’ directory you should see a file called n.

As you can see, the command is mounting the device ‘ cdrom’ (denoted by the ‘ /dev/’ directory) to ‘ /media/cdrom’ directory. You could create a mountpoint manually or you could run the following command. In order to access the content of the Guest Additions CD, you first need to mount it. Kali Linux Black Screen – Insert Guest Additions CD Mount The cdrom From the menu, Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD Image. Once you have logged in you need to instruct VirtualBox to mount the guest additions CD. If it is a Kali Virtual Machine downloaded from their website then the credentials are likely either username: kali, password: kali or username: root, password: toor. Now login to the Operating System using your credentials. To get back to the Desktop environment you need to press left CTRL and F8. This sends a signal to the operating system to spawn a virtual text only terminal or a TTY. If you ever need to do this natively on Linux then it will be left CTRL, ALT and F2. Before logging in press your right CTRL key (VirtualBox host key) and your F2 key. Start the Virtual Machine and wait for it to get to the login prompt.

Either way, we need to get them installed to rule this out as a problem. The likely cause of this problem is due to the VirtualBox Guest Additions either not being installed or not being the correct version. Do you reinstall it? Give up? Or do you fix it and add that knowledge to your mind palace. So, you have run in to the VirtualBox Kali Linux Black Screen Bug? After all that effort spent downloading it and importing the appliance, you’re excited, you attempt to login in and… nothing.

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