Boot failures on xfce

So I finally have had a chance to try and test the xfce iso. Unfortunately it seems to keep crashing. I'm not really able to do any testing on it as it's not completely booting. Hopefully this video will explain better. Sorry if it's poor quality.

Anyways, I gave it 4G ram (out of 12G) and 2 cpu cores (out of 4).

Here's inxi info on the host machine:

~ >>> sudo inxi -Fxxxzc0
System:    Host: ez-bspwm Kernel: 5.6.12-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0
           Desktop: bspwm 0.9.7-2-g342c2e3 info: lemonbar dm: LightDM 1.30.0
           Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Inspiron 580 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis:
           type: 3 serial: <filter>
           Mobo: Dell model: 033FF6 v: A00 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A05
           date: 05/12/2010
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5 750 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Nehalem
           rev: 5 L1 cache: 256 KiB L2 cache: 8192 KiB L3 cache: 8192 KiB
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 21285
           Speed: 2793 MHz min/max: 1200/2668 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2793
           2: 2793 3: 2793 4: 2793
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] vendor: Dell XPS 8300
           driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:68f9
           Display: server: X.org 1.20.8 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: modesetting
           alternate: fbdev,vesa resolution: <xdpyinfo missing>
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.6.12-1-MANJARO LLVM 10.0.0)
           v: 3.3 Mesa 20.0.6 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:3b56
           Device-2: AMD Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300/7300 Series]
           vendor: Dell XPS 8300 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1
           chip ID: 1002:aa68
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.6.12-1-MANJARO
Network:   Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k v: kernel
           port: e000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 168c:002a
           IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
           Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetLink BCM57788 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
           vendor: Dell driver: tg3 v: 3.137 port: e000 bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:1691
           IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
           IF-ID-2: virbr0-nic state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 344.68 GiB used: 142.13 GiB (41.2%)
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT120BX500SSD1 size: 111.79 GiB
           speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: R013 scheme: MBR
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST250LT003-9YG14C size: 232.89 GiB
           speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: DEM1 scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / size: 109.53 GiB used: 88.07 GiB (80.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 78.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 61 C
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1789 fan-2: 1393
Info:      Processes: 216 Uptime: 1d 23h 24m Memory: 11.66 GiB used: 3.79 GiB (32.5%)
           Init: systemd v: 245 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash (sudo) v: 5.0.16
           running in: server inxi: 3.0.37

Would love to get an install running to poke around at!

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Check sha1sum,
Give more RAM, CPU :wink:
Try live-ISO
Try LXQt-Kwin, i3wm or KDE :slight_smile:

My old AMD PC, Quadcore + HDD boot and install fine the Xfce ISO.
I never test it on Virtualbox.

Maybe Manjaro BSPWM do not like Garuda :smiley:

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try changing graphics settings in virt-manager

try to see if qxl or virtio work

and give hdd space more than 10 gb

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Hi :slight_smile:
Use at least 3 cores, I also had issues using only 2 cores.

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It was the Video output!

Switching from QXL to Virtio solved it just fine.

Thanks all! I finally get to check this bad boy out.

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